Gail Weiss

Body Images

Embodiment as Intercorporeality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the many forces that contribute to the ongoing construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of body images. Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, "Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everydat existence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780415918039
• ISBN-10: 0415918030
• Artikelnr.: 22262566

Autorenporträt

Gail Weiss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. She is co-editor of Perspectives on Embodiment (forthcoming from Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction {Introduction}
Chapter 1 Body Image Intercourse
Chapter 2 Splitting the Subject
Chapter 3 Morphological Fantasies
Chapter 4 The Abject Borders of the Body Image
Chapter 5 The Durée of the Techno-Body
Chapter 6 Écart
Chapter 7 Bodily Imperatives
conclusion {Conclusion}