Talking Bodies

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity
Herausgegeben:Rees, Emma

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question "do I have a body, or am I my body?". The essays engage with the array of meanings that our bodies have today, ranging from considerations of nineteenth-century discourses of bodily shame and otherness, through to arguing for a brand new corporeal vocabulary for the twenty-first century. Increasing numbers of people are choosing to modify their bodies, but as the essays in this volume show, this is far from being a new practice: over hundreds of years, it has evolved and accrued new meanings. This richly interdisciplinary volume maps a range of cultural anxieties about the body, resulting in a timely and compelling book that makes a vital contribution to today's key debates about embodiment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-63777-8
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9783319637778
• ISBN-10: 3319637770
• Artikelnr.: 48497740

Autorenporträt

Emma Rees is Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Chester, UK. 

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Varieties of Embodiment and 'Corporeal Style'; Emma L. E. Rees.- 2. Edith Wharton: an Heiress to Gay Male Sexual Radicalism?; Naomi Wolf.- 3. Losing Face Among the Natives: 'something about tattooing and tabooing' in Melville's Typee; Graham Atkin.- 4. What the Body Tells us: Transgender Strategies, Beauty, and Self-Consciousness; Marzia Mauriello.- 5.Tattoos: an Embodiment of Desire; Nina Nyman.- 6. Learning Womanhood: Body Modification, Girls and Identity; Abigail Tazzyman.- 7. The Construction of a Personal Norm of Physical and Psychological 'Well-Being' in Female Discourse; Maria Krebber.- 8. No Body, No Crime? (Representations of) Sexual Violence Online; Jemma Tosh.- 9. Heteronormativity as a Painful Script: How Women with Vulvar Pain (re)Negotiate Sexual Practice; Renita Sörensdotter.- 10. Queer Wounds: Writing Autobiography Past the Limits of Language; Quinn Eades.- 11.The Trouble with Body Image: the Need for a Better Corporeal Vocabulary; Melisa Trujillo.