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The Body: A Reader (Routledge Student Readers)
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Containing an extensive critical introduction and contributions from key figures, this reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the fascinating topic of the body.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #281916 in Books
- Published on: 2004-10-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
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From the Back Cover
The body has become an increasingly significant concept over recent years and this reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories which surround the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as:
* the body and social (dis)order
* bodies and identities
* bodily norms
* bodies in health and dis-ease
* bodies and technologies.
Containing an extensive critical introduction, as well as a series of introductions summarizing each section, this reader offers students a practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.
Contributors include: Elizabeth Grosz, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, Marcel Mauss, Mary Douglas, Erving Goffman, Mikhail Bakhtin, Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, Barbara Creed, Nicola Diamond, Chris Gilleard , Paul Higgs, Eve Kofosky Sedgwick, Michael Moon, Beverley Skeggs , Rosanne Allucquère Stone, Thomas Laqueur, Steven J. Gould, Alan Sekula, Lennard Davis, Peter Freund, Georges Canguilhem, Emily Martin, Douglas Crimp, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Arthur Frank, Arthur Kleinman, Carlos Novas, Nikolas Rose, Donna Haraway, Claudia Springer, Paul Gilroy, Catherine Waldby, Margaret Lock, Anne McClintock, Jean Baudrillard, Roberta Sassatelli, Celia Lury, Marilyn Strathern, Peter Brown , Orlan, Zigmunt Bauman, Arthur Frank, Elaine Scarry
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The Body Reader by M. Greco & M. Fraser
If you are a student of social theory, gender studies, embodiment studies, cultural practice to name a few subjects, then this will be invaluable to your studies. The information and theoretical debate is current to psyche-social debates occuring now so get this to keep up!
