Thinking Through the Skin

Herausgeber: Ahmed, Sara; Stacey, Jackie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeua engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on this fascinating topic.

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Produktdetails

• Transformations
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780415223560
• ISBN-10: 0415223563
• Artikelnr.: 21396990

Autorenporträt

Ahmed, Sara; Stacey, Jackie

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Notes on contributors
Series editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: dermographies
PART I: Skin surfaces
1. Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art
2. Mortification
3. Skin memories
4. Skin-tight: celebrity
pregnancy and subjectivity
PART II: Skin encounters
5. Eating skin
6. Open wounds
7. Carved in skin: bearing witness to self-harm
8. Three touches to the skin and one look: Sartre and Beauvoir on desire and embodiment
9. 'You are there
like my skin': reconfiguring relational economies
PART III: Skin sites
10. Inscribing identity: skin as country in the Central Desert
11. 'My furladies': the fabric of a nation
12. 'That is my Star of David': skin
abjection and hybridity
13. Robotic skin: the future of touch?
Index