Corpus an Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge.
Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment - that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection's fourteen original essays grapple with the place of bodies in a range of twenty...
| Main Author: | Casper, Monica J., 1966- |
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| Other Authors: | Currah, Paisley, 1964-, Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; 1 Bringing Forth the Body: An Introduction; 2 Distributed Reproduction; 3 Multiculturalist White Supremacy and the Substructure of the Body; 4 Materializing Hope: Racial Pharmaceuticals, Suffering Bodies, and Biological Citizenship; 5 Embodying Food Studies: Unpacking the Ways We Become What We Eat; 6 Epistemologies of Fatness: The Political Contours of Embodiment in Fat Studies; 7 Identities without Bodies: The New Sexuality Studies; 8 "The Bugs of the Earth": Reflections on Nature, Power, and the Laboring Body.
- 9 The Audible Body: RFIDs, Surveillance, and Bodily Scrutiny10 Virtual Body Modification: Embodiment, Identity, and Nonconforming Avatars; 11 Trauma's Essential Bodies; 12 Hold On! Falling, Embodiment, and the Materiality of Old Age; 13 The Gimmick: Or, The Productive Labor of Nonliving Bodies; Index.