Tiffany Atkinson

The Body (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of 'the body' throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological 'given', but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350309500
• Artikelnr.: 62722558

Autorenporträt

TIFFANY ATKINSON is Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
DEPTHS
Introduction;  T.Atkinson
The Renaissance Body: From Colonization to Invention;  J.Sawday
Second Meditation: Of the Nature of the Human Mind and that it is Easier to
Know than the Body;  R.Descartes
A Case of Hysteria: Fräulein Elisabeth Von R.;  S.Freud
The Incitement to Discourse;  M.Foucault
DIFFERENCE
Seduction and Guilt;  C.Clément
'Who Kills Whores?', 'I Do,' says Jack: Race and Gender in Victorian
London;  S.L.Gilman
Nietzscheanism and the Novelty of the Superman;  M.Boscagli
Male Bodies and the 'White Terror';  K.Theweleit
The Fact of Blackness;  F.Fanon
DECONSTRUCTIONS
Womanliness as Masquerade;  J.Riviere
The Anorexic Body: Reading Disorders;  A.Bray
Bodies That Matter;  J.Butler
Intensities and Flows;  E.Grosz
E.Probyn
Piercings;  M.Torgovnick
Summaries and Notes
Notes on Contributors
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index.