Talking Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783319637778)

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.


Author: Emma Rees
ISBN-10: 3319637770
ISBN-13: 9783319637778
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2017
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.52d