Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 097125463X ISBN 13 : 9780971254633

Editeur : North Atlantic Books, 2006

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In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies.

Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity.

Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: North Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 097125463X
• ISBN 13: 9780971254633
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Éditeur: Chen Nancy N., Moglen Helene
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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