The Body: A Reader
- ISBN-10
- 100014318X
- ISBN-13
- 9781000143188
- Series
- The Body
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-07-24
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Monica Greco, Mariam Fraser
Description
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.
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