TY  - BOOK
AU  - Classen,Constance
TI  - The book of touch
T2  - Sensory formations
SN  - 1845200594 (pbk.)
AV  - GN279.T68 B66 2005
U1  - 302/.12 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Berg
KW  - Touch
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Fingerprints : writing about touch; Constance Classen --; Contact; Constance Classen --; 1; Tactile communication; Ruth Finnegan --; 2; Skinscapes : embodiment, culture and environment; David Howes --; 3; Handling children : to touch or not to touch?; Anthony Synnott --; 4; The American touch : tactile imagery in American religion and politics; David Chidester --; Pleasure; Constance Classen --; 5; The pleasures of touch; Yi-Fu Tuan --; 6; Homely pleasures : the pursuit of comfort in the eighteenth century; John E. Crowley --; 7; Bourgeois love : Mabel Loomis Todd; Peter Gay --; 8; Desiring touch in Sartre and Beauvoir; Penelope Deutscher --; Pain; Constance Classen --; 9; The language of pain in India; Judy Pugh --; 10; The tortures of the Inquisition and the invention of modern guilt; Ariel Glucklich --; 11; Primate experiments : Harry Harlow and the technology of love; Donna Haraway --; 12; Sex, pain and the Marquis de Sade; David B. Morris --; Male bonding; Constance Classen --; 13; The men's house : touching and wrestling among Mehinaku men; Thomas Gregor --; 14; The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part I; C. E. Tyndale-Biscoe --; 15; The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part II; Satadru Sen --; 16; Sexuality and the drill : the body reconstructed in the military academy; Klaus Theweleit --; 17; The dying kiss : intimacy and gender in the trenches of the First World War; Santanu Das --; Women's touch; Constance Classen --; 18; Saarak's crisis : childbirth and weaning in an Inuit community; Jean Briggs --; 19; Nu Shu : female writing in China; Wang Ping --; 20; Feminine tactics : crafting an alternative aesthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Constance Classen --; 21; Seamstress and marketwoman : working women in early twentieth-century Paris; Madeleine Henrey --; 22; The mosaic makers; Karli Whitmore --; Control; Constance Classen --; 23; On medieval manners; Norbert Elias --; 24; Touch in the museum; Constance Classen --; 25; Bourgeois perception : the gaze and the contaminating touch; Peter Stallybrass and Allon White --; 26; In a Victorian prison : privations of the flesh; Philip Priestley --; Uncommon touch; Constance Classen --; 27; Phantom touch in "the case of George Dedlow"; S. Weir Mitchell --; 28; Autism and "the squeeze machine"; Temple Grandin --; 29; Rainfall and the blind body; John Hull --; 30; Tactilism; F. T. Marinetti --; 31; Visceral perception; Drew Leder --; Tactile therapies; Constance Classen --; 32; Magical healing : the king's touch; Keith Thomas --; 33; Ayurvedic medicine and the history of massage; S. V. Govindan --; 34; Breathing spaces : Qigong and healing; Nancy N. Chen --; 35; A touch of danger : the bedside manners of the eighteenth-century physician; Roy Porter --; 36; The golden age of electrotherapy; Caroline Thomas de la Pena --; Touch and technology; Constance Classen --; 37; Polishing your heart : artisans and machines in Japan; Dorinne Kondo --; 38; Modernist fictions of speed; Sara Danius --; 39; Grasping the image : how photographs are handled; Elizabeth Edwards --; 40; "Make it snuggle in the palm" : the commodification of touch; Ray Sheldon and Egmont Arens --; 41; Digital touch; Mark Paterson --; 42; Spacemaking : experiences of a virtual body; Susan Kozel
N2  - "This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic?" "How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, The Book of Touch is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world."--BOOK JACKET
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005017085-b.html
ER  -