The Body: a reader

by Fraser, Mariam Greco, Monica

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Title Statements

Full title :The Body : a reader / Mariam Fraser and Monica Greco.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London and New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

Notes

Reimpressions: 2005.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 348 p. ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:041534008X, 9780415340083, 0415340071, 9780415340076
oclc:ocn803287108
LC Classification:HM636

1 -Refiguring bodies -- 2 -The experience of the body and classical psychology -- 3 -The burden and blessing of mortality -- 4 -Ethology : Spinoza and us -- 5 -Bodies that matter -- 6 -Techniques of the body -- 7 -The two bodies -- 8 -Embodied information in face-to-face interaction -- 9 -Belief and the body -- 10 -The grotesque image of the body and its sources -- 11 -Civilization and psychosomatics -- 12 -The political investment of the body -- 13 -Lesbian bodies : tribades, tomboys and tarts -- 14 -Thin is the feminist issue -- 15 -Ageing and its embodiment -- 16 -Divinity : a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion -- 17 -Ambivalent femininities -- 18 -In novel conditions : the cross-dressing psychiatrist -- 19 -Endangered/endangering : schematic racism and white paranoia -- 20 -Orgasm, generation, and the politics of reproductive biology -- 21 -Measuring heads -- 22 -The body and the archive -- 23 -Visualizing the disabled body : the classical nude and the fragmented torso -- 24 -Bodies, disability and spaces : the social model and disabling spatial organisations -- 25 -Monstrosity and the monstrous -- 26 -Complex systems -- 27 -Portraits of people with AIDS…