ABSTRACT
The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding 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, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin Scheper-Huges, Haraway and Gilroy, and a series of introductions summarizing each section, this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|23 pages
What is a body?
part Two|38 pages
Bodies and social (dis)order
part Three|39 pages
Bodies and identities
part Four|49 pages
Normal bodies (or not)
chapter Chapter 23|15 pages
Visualizing the Disabled Body
chapter Chapter 24|5 pages
Bodies, Disability and Spaces
part Five|35 pages
Bodies in health and disease
part Six|36 pages
Bodies and technologies
chapter Chapter 32|5 pages
The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies
part Seven|33 pages
Bodies in consumer culture
chapter Chapter 41|6 pages
Enterprising Kinship
part Eight|26 pages
Body ethics