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Body Politics
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Body Politics book
Disease, Desire, and the Family
Body Politics
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Body Politics book
Disease, Desire, and the Family
Edited ByMichael Ryan, Avery Gordon
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1994
eBook Published 27 September 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 304
eBook ISBN 9780429037672
Subjects Social Sciences
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Ryan, M., & Gordon, A. (Eds.). (1994). Body Politics: Disease, Desire, and the Family (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429037672
ABSTRACT
This book looks at the physical and metaphorical attributes of the human body as a site of contention, politics, and cultural protest. It discusses a range of issues, from torture and moral panics to the "AIDS plague" and the homosocial subtexts of George Bush's political speeches.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part One|93 pages
Disease, War, & The Family
chapter 2|14 pages
Fatal Abstraction: The Death and Sinister Afterlife of the American Family
ByNancy Armstrong
chapter 4|27 pages
The Meaning of Property: Real Estate, Class Position, and the Ideology of Home Ownership
ByPierre Bourdieu, Monique de Saint Martin, Michael Hardt
part Part Two|42 pages
Drugs Hysteria Pain
chapter 8|11 pages
James Bond and Immanuel Kant’s War on Drugs: A Nosography and Nosegrammatics of Male Hysteria
ByMark Driscoll
chapter 10|11 pages
The Broken Self: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Native American Selfhood
ByMargit Stange
part Part Three|35 pages
Political Bodies
chapter 12|17 pages
Postmortem on the Presidential Body, or Where the Rest of Him Went
ByBrian Massumi, Kenneth Dean
part Part Four|49 pages
Torture, Knowledge, & The State
chapter 14|12 pages
Body Memories: Aide-Memoires and Collective Amnesia in the Wake of the Argentine Terror
ByJulie Taylor
chapter 16|13 pages
The Electronic Body at the End of the State: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Japanese Emperor System
ByTetsuo Kogawa
part Part Five|55 pages
Alternities
chapter 18|12 pages
The Physiology of Counter-Power: When Socialism Is Impossible and Communism So Near
ByToni Negri, Michael Hardt
chapter 20|27 pages
Frankenstein’s Dream: Constitutional Revision and Social Design, or How to Build a Body Politic
ByMichael Ryan
