349 results on '"Human body--Social aspects"'
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2. Muscle Works : Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity
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Broderick D.V. Chow and Broderick D.V. Chow
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- Weight training--Social aspects, Physical fitness--History--20th century, Physical fitness--History--19th century, Health promotion, Human body--Social aspects, Masculinity
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Men's fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today This book recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices. Broderick D. V. Chow shows how these modes of display contribute to the construction and deconstruction of definitions of masculinity. Attending to its theatrical origins, Chow argues for a more nuanced understanding of fitness culture, one informed by the legacies of self-described Strongest Man in the World Eugen Sandow and the history of fakery in strongman performance; the philosophy of weightlifter George Hackenschmidt and the performances of martial artist Bruce Lee; and the intersections of fatigue, resistance training, and whiteness. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity moves beyond the gym and across the archive, working out techniques, poses, and performances to consider how, as gendered subjects, we inhabit and make worlds through our bodies.
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- 2024
3. The Shrinking Goddess : Power, Myth and the Female Body
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Mineke Schipper and Mineke Schipper
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- Human body--Social aspects, Women--Mythology--History
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Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the first female figure – Mother Earth – was recreated as a crooked rib. Ranging from the absurd to the empowering, these myths not only survive but continue to wield power today. The Shrinking Goddess brings together myths about the female form and traces the subsequent male efforts to'tame'it. Mineke Schipper examines how women's bodies have been represented since records began – the first Venus and vulva figures date to 40,000 BCE – and around the world. Drawing together the vast reservoir of myths, proverbs, art, science and scripture that shape how women are seen in the present day, Schipper reclaims the female body as a source of power. Readers of Angela Davis, Mary Beard, Audre Lorde, Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer will want to read this book.
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- 2024
4. Coloquio de las quiltras : Argumentos caninos ante las crisis del feminismo
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Lina Meruane and Lina Meruane
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- Right to bodily autonomy, Human body--Social aspects, Women, Feminism
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Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso 2023 Un ensayo-ficciónen el que laquiltra LinaMeruane y la chucha Luna Miguel sostienen un diálogo sagazplagado de argumentos caninos ante las crisisdel feminismo en nuestra era. Siguiendo la huella de los canes cervantinos, Cipión y Berganza, y de las perras Fina y Franca de Rosario Ferré, Lina Meruane organiza en este ensayo-ficción su propio coloquio sobre las tensiones que asaltan a los feminismos contemporáneos. Sus perras callejeras –la vieja quiltra chilena #Lina# y la joven chucha española #Luna# –debaten qué implica la liberación de los cuerpos: tener o no crías, exaltar o no la desnudez, aceptar y practicar las transiciones de toda especie, e incluso legitimar el perreo vis a vis una violencia sexual, sicológica y simbólica todavía impune dentro y fuera de los libros. Este diálogo desenfadado, a ratos un fiero contrapunteo generacional, es, sobre todo, un alegato a favor del examen crítico y de la refutación en vez de la cancelación de los argumentos adversos. La nueva colección Endebate es el hogar de aquellos textos breves que presentan una opinión, defienden una actitud o cuentan una historia, pero son más un aperitivo que un banquete, estimulan la conversación más que saciarla e inician un festín (que no clausuran). Como los mejores bocados, entran por los ojos y dejan un largo poso en el paladar. Reseñas: «Todos somos perras, da igual la identidad sexual... Perra is a lifestyle. Yo quiero ser una perra y ser libre en mi vida». Rigoberta Bandini «Lina Meruane, cuya prosa se resiste a los usos heredados, es una escritora inteligente, autocrítica, que sabe adelantarse a objeciones [...]. Me quito el sombrero ante ella». Marta Sanz «La prosa de Lina Meruane posee una fuerte potencia literaria: surge de los martillazos de la conciencia, pero también de lo inasible y del dolor». Roberto Bolaño «Una escritora deliberada e inmensamente dotada que entiende cómo el trauma político se conserva para siempre en el cuerpo». The New York Times Sobre Sistema nervioso: «Sistema nervioso arde en la mente mucho después de haberlo leído, como esos fantasmas que circunnavegan nuestra psique y los sinuosos corredores de la historia, para martillarnos en la cabeza con la cruda verdad de que el tiempo no es lineal. La distancia entre el pasado profundo y el presente, muestra Meruane, es mucho más corta de lo que podríamos estar inclinados a pensar». The New York Times BookReview Sobre Contra los hijos: «Contra los hijos es un grito [...] contra el siempre creciente imperio de los hijos que ha convertido a sus progenitores en esclavos y ha devuelto a las mujeres (que recién conquistaban su libertad a la reclusión de la crianza». Vice
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- 2024
5. Dangerous Bodies : New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression
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Royce Mahawatte, Jacki Willson, Royce Mahawatte, and Jacki Willson
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- Fashion--Political aspects, Transgression (Ethics), Fashion--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects, Human body--Political aspects
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This edited book brings together new perspectives on fashion, the body, and politics. The intention of this collection is to explore the cultural intersection between bodies, fashion, and transgression, often in the most unlikely of locations. Bodies are political players in culture and the authors gathered here ask a range of pressing questions. What role do fashioned bodies play in resistance, in meeting governmental boundaries or institutional power? Arguably, fashion is an aspect of modern warfare and style can defend and attack in cultural space. So, how do fashioned bodies occupy the grey area between social control and the resistance to power? This book is interdisciplinary and international, with contributors situated within a broad range of disciplines including Art History and Critical Practice, Cultural Studies, Fashion Critical Studies, Film and Literary Studies, Performance Studies, Politics and International Studies, Sociology, Gender, Queer, LGBTI, andCritical Race Studies.
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- 2023
6. El cuerpo deseado : La conversación pendiente entre feminismo y anticapacitismo
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Andrea García-Santesmases and Andrea García-Santesmases
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- Sociology of disability, Human body--Social aspects, Women with disabilities, Feminist ethics
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¿Cómo se cruzan el género y la diversidad funcional? ¿Tienen las personas discapacitadas derecho al sexo? ¿Es la discapacidad una identidad política? Este libro analiza la intersección entre patriarcado y capacitismo e invita a la discusión entre sus lecturas críticas –el feminismo y el anticapacitismo– en torno al género, los cuidados, la violencia, la sexualidad y la politización de la diferencia. «Desde la investigación, la cultura popular o la experiencia vital, la autora nos plantea los debates necesarios que se abren cuando el feminismo y el anticapacitismo se interrogan, cuerpo a cuerpo». Laura Sanmiquel «Era hora de poner a dialogar al feminismo con la diversidad funcional. Cruces que la autora se atreve a coser a través del hilo del deseo. Una lectura incómoda, que incita a catapultar nuestras estructuras mentales». Elena Prous
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- 2023
7. Anthropology Through the Experience of the Physical Body
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Kaori Fushiki, Ryoko Sakurada, Kaori Fushiki, and Ryoko Sakurada
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- Ethnology--Southeast Asia--Case studies, Ethnology, Human body--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects--East Asia--Case studies, Human body--Social aspects--Southeast Asia--Case studies, Ethnology--East Asia--Case studies
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This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives. In doing so, it interrogates how the body has been and continues to be conceptualised, experienced and interacted with. After an introductory appraisal of recent approaches to understanding the body, the book provides empirically rich accounts from East and Southeast Asia of how cultural, environmental and social norms shape human physicality. The contributions are organised in four broad themes. Part I, ‘Body and Space', offers two contrasting case studies from Malaysia, both of which examine gender norms associated with marriage and pregnancy, including the taboos associated with these rites of passage. Part II, ‘Imperfect Bodies: Communication and the Body as Media', analyses two case studies—Deaf people in Japan and masked theatre performance in Bali, Indonesia, to reflect on changing attitudes towards disability, which reflect broader social norms and cultural beliefs about the nature of disability and its place in society. Part III, ‘The Body and Image', provides a pair of case studies from Singapore, on male fans of the popular manga boys'love genre and on ways that the Chinese zodiac system is determined from birth and continues to be spiritually embedded in the body of a Chinese individual through ritual practices. Part IV, ‘The Body as Container: Taming the Bodies?', presents a single case study from Thailand of spirit possession among schoolchildren. Though wide-ranging, all the case studies posit that the body is a site of constant negotiation. The way the body is presented and the way it is seen are shaped by a complex array of social, cultural, political and ideational factors. Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of the body in East and Southeast Asia and for those with wider interests in the field of critical anthropology.
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- 2023
8. El sexo y el texto. Etnografías y sexualidad en América Latina
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Rodrigo Parrini, Karine Tinat, Rodrigo Parrini, and Karine Tinat
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- Feminism--Social aspects--Latin America, Human body--Social aspects, Sex--Social aspects--Latin America, Sex--Anthropological aspects--Latin America, Sex--Anthropological aspects--Research--Latin America
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Esta antología procura mirar de cerca el cruce entre etnografía y sexualidad, a la vez que problematizar sus interrogantes epistemológicas y metodológicas en América Latina. Los textos reunidos muestran que los entrecruzamientos entre deseo y normas morales, espacios de intimidad y foros públicos, afectos y economías de sobrevivencia o identidades e instituciones suceden de manera singular y con características particulares. En El sexo y el texto. Etnografías y sexualidad en América Latina, la sexualidad no es un objeto compartido y delimitado sino un terreno de disputas socioculturales, fisuras políticas y epistémicas, así como confrontaciones institucionales y subjetivas.
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- 2023
9. Istanbul Appearances : Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey
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Claudia Liebelt and Claudia Liebelt
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- Human body--Social aspects, Beauty, Personal--Turkey--Istanbul, Beauty shops--Turkey--Istanbul, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Turkey--Istanbul
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In the twenty-first century, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly common practice, especially among younger and middle-aged women. Turkey now ranks among the top countries worldwide with the highest number of cosmetic procedures, and with its cultural and economic capital, Istanbul has become a regional center for the beauty and fashion industries. Istanbul Appearances illustrates the profound effects of this growing market on urban residents'body images, gendered norms, and practices. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork carried out in beauty salons and clinics in different parts of the city, Liebelt explores how standards of femininity and female desire have shifted since the consolidation of power and authoritarian rule of the conservative, Islamic Justice and Development Party.Arguing that the politics of beauty are intricately bound up with the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality, Liebelt shows that female bodies have become a major site for the negotiation of citizenship. It is in the numerous beauty salons and clinics that heteronormative ideals and images of gendered bodies become real, embodied in a complex array of emotional desires of who and what is considered not only beautiful but also morally proper.
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- 2023
10. Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities : Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Culture, and Media
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Jodi Cressman, Lisa DeTora, Jeannie Ludlow, Nora Martin Peterson, Jodi Cressman, Lisa DeTora, Jeannie Ludlow, and Nora Martin Peterson
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- Health--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects, Health in literature
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Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities: Literature, Culture, and Media examines discourses of embodiment across disability studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and visual studies to inform educational practice as well as cultural criticism related to the health and medical humanities. The book argues that imagery and other visual elements in literature, comics, lived experience and the arts demonstrate the hybridity of the embodied experience and identity and have something to offer to clinical practice. Connected to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Health), 4 (Gender equality), and 16 (Strong institutions), the topics addressed in the essays include mental health, grief, COVID-19, healthcare practices, cancer, and women's health. The volume is designed to be accessible to advanced undergraduate students as well as graduate students and to be useful for medical practitioners and others who are interested in the health humanities, disability studies,gender studies, or cultural studies.
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- 2023
11. The Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life : Niches of Liberation
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Leszek Koczanowicz and Leszek Koczanowicz
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- Human body--Political aspects, Human body--Social aspects
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The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book. The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of political practice. Subject to regulation, the body functions as a vehicle of oppressive social influences, and has been studied as such by philosophers within the framework of biopolitics. However, the body is also a locus of resistance and rebellion against the entrenched rules, a quality which the author refers to as somapower. The revolt of the body usually begins and develops beyond political spaces – in emancipatory cultural niches, which may gradually accrue political resonance. While this microphysics of emancipation, with its potential for remodeling political life, is particularly important in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, it is also a relevant force in democracies, where it may foster social change.
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- 2023
12. Embodied Activism : Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection--A Practical Guide for Transformative Social Change
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Rae Johnson, PhD and Rae Johnson, PhD
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- Social justice, Body language--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects, Body image--Social aspects
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A radically different approach to social and environmental justice work for fans of adrienne maree brown and Bessel van der KolkInstead of thinking about social justice as a process that starts with changing people's minds, Embodied Activism understands our bodies--how we feel in them and relate to others through them--as the sites of transformationHow do ordinary people with busy lives leverage our actions in support of liberation, justice, and authentic connection? How can activists and social change-makers avoid burning out? How does the body factor into what our social movements miss? Drawing on the somatic arts, trauma-informed psychology, and anti-oppressive movements, Embodied Activism helps us explore and transform the political realities of our everyday lives in a new way: by harnessing the felt experience of our bodies as the sites of our activism.Rae Johnson teaches us to listen to our body language--and to question body image norms. They show us how to reconnect to our sensual capacities, which we can lose sight of in a non-stop, nervous-system-hijacking world. They give us tools and exercises to nourish ourselves and protect our bodies, minds, and spirits from the toll that activism can take. And they teach us about nonverbal communication styles and how to connect with each other in joyful, authentic community.Embodied Activism is written for embodiment professionals, community organizers, and all readers looking for new tools and perspectives for changing the world, one body at a time.
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- 2023
13. Traveling Bodies : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling As an Embodied Practice
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Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, Uta Schaffers, Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, and Uta Schaffers
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- Travel--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects, Mind and body, Human body in literature, Travel writing, Travel in literature
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Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling. The case studies assembled in this volume discuss a variety of traveling practices, experiences, and media with chapters featuring Asian, American, and European historical and contemporary perspectives. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume identifies and examines diverse literary, historical and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which traveling and the body intersect, including ‘classic'travelogues, (new) media (e.g., film, digital travel apps), surf culture, and travel-inspired tattoos. The contributions offer various avenues for further research, not only for scholars working with body theory and travel (writing), but also for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, culture, media, and embodied practices of traveling.
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- 2023
14. Autocienciaficción para el fin de la especie
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Begoña Méndez and Begoña Méndez
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- Human body--Social aspects, Women--Identity, Women in popular culture
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Begoña Méndez quiso escribir la historia de su cuerpo sumergido en las tripas de una gasolinera Shell; quiso despilfarrar su nombre y su carne y desaparecer en el humus de los seres descartados y las mujeres en crisis. De ese intento, nace este ensayo. Un libro que gravita alrededor de la idea de identidad como delirio de la cultura, de los cuerpos concebidos como ficción colectiva y de la noción de género como un discurso somático que levanta fronteras. «Un gran poema místico sobre la carne soñada y el sueño encarnado, que a nadie dejará indiferente. En su radical exploración de las luces y sombras que asisten a un cuerpo autocreado —expandido—, la lírica asciende y se abisma hasta espacios insospechados. Un canto a la refundación extática de la carne, al regreso a lo que es todo y nada, a lo gravitante y lo espectral; al estado anfibio. El primer texto que he leído de algo que podría llamar xenomisticismo.» Agustín Fernández Mallo
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- 2022
15. One Size Does Not Fit All : Undressing the Performance of Bodies in Popular Culture
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Sarah S. LeBlanc, K. Megan Hopper, Sarah S. LeBlanc, and K. Megan Hopper
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- Human body--Social aspects, Human body in mass media, Human body in popular culture, Human body (Philosophy), Body image--Social aspects
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This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture's focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences'perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals'relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for future research on this topic. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and health communication will find this book particularly useful.
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- 2022
16. The Power of Not Thinking : How Our Bodies Learn and Why We Should Trust Them
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Simon Roberts and Simon Roberts
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- Human body--Social aspects, Mind and body, Technology--Social aspects
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Details the role our body plays in how we learn and how we can tap into our body's knowledge to excel in all facets of life. Ask someone to point to the part of their body responsible for their intelligence and it is highly likely that they will point at their head. This assumption is understandable, given that, for centuries, from Descartes'“cogito ergo sum” to the computer age, this is what we have been told to think.And yet we all share common experiences that have revealed the incomparable power of “not thinking”. Have you ever struggled to remember your pin number only to hold your fingers out and type it correctly with your hands, played the piano without focusing on remembering the correct notes or listened to your gut feeling when under the pressure of a big decision? All these instances prove that it is time to stop neglecting the role the body plays in our acquisition of knowledge and to explore how it is that brain and body combine to deliver what we view as uniquely human intelligence. You never forgot how to ride a bike did you? In this unique new book, social and business anthropologist Simon Roberts looks at the pivotal role that our body plays in how we learn and reminds us of why we should learn to listen to it more often. Drawing upon an incredible range of cutting-edge science, real-life examples and personal experience, Roberts explores the complexity of even the simplest of tasks that humans perform every day and goes on to explain how, with a greater awareness of the processes at work, we can tap into our full potential and excel in any area of our lives. His proposition isn't the antidote to big data, cold rationalism, and reductionism. But, as embodied knowledge emerges from our engagement and interaction with the world, the author underlines why intelligence does not solely reside in our brains. If there's a single, practical message to be taken from it, it is that we should give more credit to the role of the body as a resource for learning about and understanding the world. That means a more ‘sleeves rolled up', engaged and practical way of ‘learning by doing'not by rational detachment.
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- 2022
17. Habiter le monde au féminin : Entre récits et phénoménologie
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Florence Vinit, Christian Thiboutot, Florence Vinit, and Christian Thiboutot
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- Phenomenology, Women--Physiology, Women--Psychology, Human body--Social aspects
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La tradition phénoménologique a rappelé l'importance de la corporéité dans toute pensée du quotidien. Fondamentalement situé, le corps s'éprouve dans le concret de nos vies comme une ouverture au monde, dont l'amplitude et la tonalité affective varient. Parallèlement, la pensée féministe a mis en garde contre la dimension abstraite et asexuée du corps propre décrit par les phénoménologues, révélant les enjeux d'oppression et de pouvoir auquel il est soumis. Les autrices et les auteurs qui ont participé à la rédaction de cet ouvrage cherchent à décrire et penser des expériences qui engagent la dimension incarnée de l'existence, en faisant entendre des voix plurielles et complémentaires dans une orientation de phénoménologie critique et d'herméneutique. Au-delà du risque d'essentialiser le « féminin », les textes présentent différentes modalités d'être-au-monde, occasions de tension, de contradictions ou d'émergence de sens. Ce livre s'adresse particulièrement aux personnes qui étudient en psychologie, en philosophie ou en études féministes, de même qu'à celles qui réfléchissent aux enjeux liés à la manière d'habiter le monde.
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- 2022
18. The End of the Circus : Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resilience
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Paul Bouissac and Paul Bouissac
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- Acrobatics, Human body--Social aspects, Circus--Social aspects, Semiotics, Circus animals, Clowns
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This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of clowning. Positioning this socio-cultural change within the broader perspective of evolutionary semiotics, renowned circus expert Paul Bouissac examines the decline of the traditional circus and its transformation into a purely acrobatic spectacle. The End of the Circus draws on Bouissac's extensive ethnographic research, including previously unpublished material on the training of wild animals and clown make-up, to chart the origins of the circus in Gypsy culture and the drastic change in contemporary Western attitudes on ethical grounds. It scrutinizes the emergence of the new form of circus, with its focus on acrobatics and the meaning of the body, showing how acrobatic techniques have been appropriated from traditional Gypsy heritage and brought into the fold of mainstream popular entertainment. Questioning the survival of the new circus and the likely resurgence of its traditional forms, this book showcases Bouissac's innovative approach to semiotics and marks the culmination of his ground-breaking work on the circus.
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- 2022
19. Feminist Theory and the Body
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Price, Janet, Shildrick, Margrit, Price, Janet, and Shildrick, Margrit
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- Feminism, Human body--Social aspects, Human body--Symbolic aspects, Feminist theory
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This new Reader gives students an ideal overview of the historical developments and current controversies within this dynamic area of feminist theory.
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- 2022
20. Body Utopianism : Prosthetic Being Between Enhancement and Estrangement
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Franziska Bork Petersen and Franziska Bork Petersen
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- Human body--Social aspects, Utopias
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This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly dystopian or anti-utopian outcomes. It is the first comprehensive study to address the paradoxical relationship between bodies and utopianism. Franziska Bork Petersen discusses doping, bodybuilding and cosmetic surgery alongside practices such as retouching the ‘body as image'on social media, and looks at how fashion modelling and performance ‘estrange'the body. Techniques and technologies to transform our bodies are increasingly accessible and suggest an excessive identification of the body as lacking. To ‘be a body'in a culturally meaningful way, we incessantly improve our bodily appearance and capacity. The book therefore addresses the utopianism inherent in a cultural understanding of bodies as increasingly controllable.
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- 2022
21. How to Make the Body : Difference, Identity, and Embodiment
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Jennifer Creech, Thomas O. Haakenson, Jennifer Creech, and Thomas O. Haakenson
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- Human body--Social aspects, Human body (Philosophy), Human body in popular culture, Body image--Germany
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How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings together contemporary and historical readings of the body, exploring the insights and limits of established and emerging theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a variety of German contexts. The engaging contributions to this volume utilize and challenge cutting-edge approaches to scholarship on the body by putting these approaches in direct conversation with canonical texts and objects, as well as with lesser-known yet provocative emerging forms. To these ends, the chapter authors investigate “the body” through detailed studies across a wide variety of disciplines and modes of expression: from advertising, aesthetics, and pornography, to social media, scientific experimentation, and transnational cultural forms. Thus, this volume showcases the ways in which the body as such cannot be taken for granted and surmises that the body continues to undergo constant--and potentially disruptive--diversification and transformation.
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- 2022
22. The Breath of Empire : Breathing with Historical Trauma in Anglo-Chinese Relations
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Nichola Khan and Nichola Khan
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- Violence--China--Psychological aspects, Families--China--Hong Kong--Psychological aspects, Human body--Social aspects
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This Palgrave Pivot combines anthropological, biographical and autoethnographic perspectives onto imperial intimacies, the transgenerational transmission of colonial and familial trauma, and violence in two kinds of household: the Chinese family in British Hong Kong and wider imperial Asia, and the Anglo-Chinese family in England. Conjoining approaches from literary anthropology, the historiography of Anglo-Chinese relations, and perspectives on colonial trauma, it highlights the relative neglect of women's stories in customary Chinese readings, colonial accounts, and an ancestral family record from 1800 to the present. Offering an alternative view of family history, this book links the body as a dwelling for assaults on the ability to breathe—through tuberculosis, opium smoking, asthma, and panic—with the physical home that is assaulted in turn by bombs, killing, intimate betrayals, and fatal respiratory illness. The COVID-19 “pandemic of breathlessness” serves as mnemonic both for state repression, and for the reprisal of historical fears of suffocation and dying. These phenomena converge under an analytic concept the author calls respiratory politics.
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- 2022
23. Die Selbstverständlichkeit des Menschen : Rhetorik der Evidenz und Anthropologie bei Christoph Martin Wieland
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Anna Rabea Kayßer and Anna Rabea Kayßer
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- Human body in literature, German literature--Themes, motives, Human body--Political aspects, Human body (Philosophy), Human body--Social aspects
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Wird Christoph Martin Wieland in der Forschung immer wieder als Skeptiker gehandelt, so zeigt diese Studie, dass es gewisse anthropologische Grundüberzeugungen gibt, an denen Wieland sein Leben lang festhält. Es sind Annahmen über die Natur des Menschen und das menschliche Miteinander, die für Wieland evident sind, weil er sie durch die Geschichte, seine eigene Erfahrung und den gesunden Menschenverstand bestätigt sieht. Sie bilden ein konstantes, anthropologisches Fundament, auf welchem Wielands Sujets, seine philosophischen Überlegungen sowie sein Dichtungs- und Bildungsverständnis gründen.
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- 2022
24. The Body Productive : Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body
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Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby, Savannah Whaley, Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby, and Savannah Whaley
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- Work--Philosophy, Capitalism--Philosophy, Capitalism--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects
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The Body Productive represents a new and radical approach to the relationships between capitalism, work and the body. Self-evident, natural, biological - this is how we think of the body on an everyday basis. However, this supposedly most direct aspect of our being may in fact be a primary site of socio-economic mediation and ideological reproduction. How are bodies produced under capitalism? How, in turn, does capitalism make bodies productive? How is the body (and knowledge of the body) shaped by demands of production, consumption and exchange, and how can these logics be resisted, challenged and overcome?These are the questions at the heart of The Body Productive, a collection of original, radical new approaches to the relationships between capitalism, work and the body from an international group of scholars and activists. Taking inspiration from the neglected theoretical work of François Guéry and Didier Deleule, and bridging Marxist and Foucauldian traditions, this book rethinks the relationships between the biological and the social; the body and the mind; power and knowledge; discipline and control.
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- 2022
25. The Body in the Anglosphere, 1880–1920 : 'Well Sexed Womanhood,' 'Finer Natives,' and 'Very White Men'
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Robert W. Thurston and Robert W. Thurston
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- Human body in mass media, Body image--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects, Sex, Anglo-Saxon race, Race, Sex role
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Focusing on the body in every chapter, this book examines the changing meanings and profound significance of the physical form among the Anglo-Saxons from 1880 to 1920. They formed an imaginary—but, in many ways, quite real—community that ruled much of the world. Among them, racism became more virulent. To probe the importance of the body, this book brings together for the first time the many areas in which the physical form was newly or more extensively featured, from photography through literature, frontier wars, violent sports, and the global circus. Sex, sexuality, concepts of gender including women's possibilities in all areas of life, and the meanings of race and of civilization figured regularly in Anglo discussions. Black people challenged racism by presenting their own photos of respectable folk. As all this unfolded, Anglo men and women faced the problem of maintaining civilized control vs. the need to express uninhibited feeling. With these issues in mind, it is evident that the origins of today's debates about race and gender lie in the late nineteenth century.
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- 2022
26. Il corpo e lo spettro : Per una critica della modernità digitale
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Paolo Zani and Paolo Zani
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- Human body--Social aspects, COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Social aspects, Internet--Social aspects
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Nella primavera del 2020, di fronte all'insorgere della pandemia da coronavirus, larga parte delle nazioni di tutto il mondo ha messo in atto il lockdown, una misura che in maniera tanto radicale e generalizzata non era mai stata adottata prima. La digitalizzazione è insieme il presupposto che ha reso tale misura possibile, e lo strumento potente con cui perseguire una sorta di salto di specie, che ha a che vedere con la maniera in cui l'uomo occidentale si pensa e con la relazione che esso in trattiene con il proprio corpo. Attraverso un'argomentazione rigorosa e incalzante, capace di te nere insieme riferimenti classici e sensibilità verso il presente, Paolo Zani segue le peripezie del corpo attraverso le più diverse epoche e culture: perché il corpo è l'arcano attorno a cui danzano le religioni e le filosofie di tutto il mondo; per ché a partire dal corpo, crocevia del dolore e del desiderio, si articola la cifra fondamentale della modernità. L'esperienza del lockdown spinge infatti all'estremo un processo che ha avuto inizio ben prima della pandemia, e che affonda le sue radici nel bisogno di eliminare il dolore: la rimozione del corpo. Questo processo prende oggi una forma inedita, che è anche una nuova maniera di essere presenti: la presenza digitale. Quale sarà il prezzo di una metamorfosi simile? Una volta cancellato per sempre il corpo, cosa resterà dell'uomo, se non uno spettro? E cosa ne sarà del desiderio, del dolore, della felicità? Perché senza corpo, e in fondo senza dolore, non può esservi desiderio; e senza desiderio, non può esservi felicità. La posta in gioco è alta: sollecita a una presa di posizione morale e politica, e coinvolge in pieno la generazione dei ventenni di oggi, che della rivoluzione digitale sono gli attori e i destinatari futuri. Ad essi in particolare l'autore ha deciso di rivolgersi, anzitutto coinvolgendo un nutrito gruppo di amici suoi coetanei nella stesura del libro. L'intento è quello di proseguire su questa strada: Il corpo e lo spettro nasce da un rinnovato bisogno di incontro e coesione, e si pone di fronte ai suoi lettori come un libro aperto, da discutere, praticare, condividere.
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- 2022
27. Politische Körper : Von Sorge und Solidarität
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Jule Govrin and Jule Govrin
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- Human body--Social aspects, Human body--Political aspects, Human body (Philosophy)
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Wie verwundbar unsere Körper sind, verdrängen wir im Alltag, wo wir nur können. Doch die Pandemie hat uns diesen Umstand schmerzhaft ins Gedächtnis gerufen: Wird schon das Ein- und Ausatmen zur Gefahr, erscheint jedes Miteinander bedrohlich. Zugleich wird sicht- und mehr noch spürbar, wie sehr wir auf Begegnungen und Berührungen angewiesen sind. So tritt eine Ambivalenz zutage, die zum philosophischen Ausgangspunkt für Jule Govrins Nachdenken über Körper und Politik wird: Verletzbar zu sein vereint alle Körper, in unserer Körperlichkeit scheint damit ein Moment radikaler Gleichheit auf. Doch Gegenwart und Geschichte sind von Mechanismen bestimmt, die darauf abzielen, Körper ungleich zu machen. Govrins aufwühlender Essay lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit darauf, wie politische Bilder und ökonomische Praktiken Körper formen. Zugleich eröffnet dieser Blick Aussichten auf einen Universalismus von unten, wie er sich in aktuellen feministischen Protestbewegungen abzeichnet. Ausgehend von der Erkenntnis, dass unsere Körper durch einander verwundbar und voneinander abhängig sind, wird die Sorge um sie zum Dreh- und Angelpunkt globaler Solidarität.
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- 2022
28. On the Corposphere : Anthroposemiotics of the Body
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José Enrique Finol and José Enrique Finol
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- Semiotics, Human body--Social aspects, Nonverbal communication
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The book presents and analyzes some of the most important issues related to the body seen as a rich and complex anthropological and semiotic object, capable of playing a decisive role in the meaning making processes of cultural and social life. The analysis presented in this book opens a whole set of new venues for the study of body performances and representations, and shows how the embodiment of social and cultural life shape our world. In all of its relationships and in itself, our body works in a sort of corposphere, which is, in turn, part of the semiosphere, defined by Lotman as a continuum occupied by different types of semiotic formations. It is from/in/by the body that all semiosis begins and ends; it is in its presence and absence, in its being and in its presentation amidst the lived situational life where we might discover and shape the senses of the world. Many different academic fields will find in this book deep insights about how the body is at the center of cultural and social processes.
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- 2021
29. The Body : The Key Concepts
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Lisa Blackman and Lisa Blackman
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- Body image--Social aspects, Human physiology, Human body--Social aspects, Human body (Philosophy), Identity (Psychology)
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Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with brand new chapters on affective bodies, indeterminate bodies, assemblaged bodies and a new conclusion, and featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up-to-date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture. Lisa Blackman outlines and illuminates those debates which have made the body central to current interdisciplinary thinking across the arts, humanities and sciences. Since body studies hit the mainstream, it has grown in new regions, including China, and moved in new directions to question what counts as a body and what it means to have and be a body in different contexts, milieu and settings. Lisa Blackman guides the reader through socio-cultural questions around representation, performance, class, race, gender, disability and sexuality to examine how current thinking about the body has developed and been transformed. Blackman engages with classic anthropological scholarship from Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock, revisits black feminist writings from the 1980s, as well as engaging with recent debates, thought and theorists who are inventing new concepts, methods and ways of apprehending embodiment which challenge binary and dualistic categories. It provides an overview of the proliferation of body studies into other disciplines, including media and cultural studies, philosophy, gender studies and anthropology, as well as mapping the future of body studies at the intersections of body and affect studies.
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- 2021
30. Bodies, Affects, Politics : The Clash of Bodily Regimes
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Steve Pile and Steve Pile
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- Human body--Political aspects, Human body--Social aspects, Communities--History--21st century, Social distance--History--21st century
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This book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them: Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affects Reworks Rancière's notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconscious Establishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysis Utilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud's case studies Sets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment
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- 2021
31. Bodily Inscriptions: Interdisciplinary Explorations into Embodiment
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Lori Duin Kelly, Editor and Lori Duin Kelly, Editor
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- Human body in popular culture, Human body in literature, Human body--Social aspects
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Awareness of the role that physical difference plays in an individual's ability to negotiate personal and cultural spaces has spread into a variety of disciplines within the past two decades. This collection of essays adds to the growing corpus of work exploring the body as a site of cultural inscription by focusing exclusively on how this process plays out in the sphere of popular culture. The nine essays in this collection touch on a variety of topics of interest to both scholars and students of the body, ranging from contested issues within the discourse on fat and anorexia, to tattoos, domestic violence campaigns, mastectomy, neurasthenia, and gendered identity. By drawing on the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines within the social sciences and humanities, this collection provides models of how different disciplines approach the body. By incorporating perspectives from new and emerging fields like New Historicism, as well as Queer Theory, Fat, and Disability Studies, it simultaneously demonstrates how the use of a body perspective can expand and enliven understanding within these disciplines, and thus should be of interest to a wide variety of readers.
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- 2021
32. Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies: Challenging Categories, Gender Norms, and Policy Responses
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Jesper Andreasson, April Henning, Jesper Andreasson, and April Henning
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- Physical fitness--Social aspects, Gender identity in sports, Human body--Social aspects, Doping in sports--Social aspects, Athletes--Drug use
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Why has doping, both as a practice and a social phenomenon, been approached largely as a question of context: sport or fitness? People who dope are not bound to a singular context. Quite the opposite, as individuals weave between and move across various settings in their trajectories to and from doping, as goals, identities, ambitions, and lifestyles change over time. Building on data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, studies of online doping communities, and in-depth case studies, this book embraces the challenge of moving beyond traditional and historical doping dichotomies – such as sport or fitness, online or offline, pleasure or harm, masculinity or femininity, and health or harm – and develops new terminology to understand trajectories to and from doping. By imploding these divisions and approaching the issue from a both/and perspective, it offers updated and nuanced ways of both empirically and theoretically rethinking doping use and experiences attached to the practice.
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- 2021
33. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment
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Natalie Boero, Katherine Mason, Natalie Boero, and Katherine Mason
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- Human body--Social aspects, Marginality, Social
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In popular debates over the influences of nature versus culture on human lives, bodies are often assigned to the category of'nature': biological, essential, and pre-social. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges that view, arguing that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The volume is divided into three main parts: Bodies and Methodology; Marginalized Bodies; and Embodied Sociology. Sociologists contributing to the first two parts focus on the body and the ways it is given meaning, regulated, and subjected to legal and medical oversight in a variety of social contexts (particularly when the body in question violates norms for how a culture believes bodies'ought'to behave or appear). Sociologists contributing to the last part use the bodily as a lens through which to study social institutions and experiences. These social settings range from personal decisions about medical treatment to programs for teaching police recruits how to use physical force, from social movement tactics to countries'understandings of race and national identity. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Body also prioritizes empirical evidence and methodological rigor, attending to the ways particular lives are lived in particular physical bodies located within particular cultural and institutional contexts. Many chapters offer extended methodological reflections, providing guidance on how to conduct sociological research on the body and, at times, acknowledging the role the authors'own bodies play in developing their knowledge of the research subject.
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- 2021
34. Black Swan Song : Life and Work of a Wetland Writer
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Rod Giblett and Rod Giblett
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- Wetland ecology, Conservationists--Australia--Biography, Human body--Social aspects, Human ecology, Human geography, Environmentalism, American literature--History and criticism, Social ecology
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Combining memoir and studies in the Environmental Humanities, Black Swan Song weaves together an autobiographically-based account of the unique life and work of Rod Giblett. For over 25 years he was a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist, and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has researched, written, and published more than 25 books in the environmental humanities, especially wetland cultural studies, and psychoanalytic ecology. Black Swan Song traces Rod's early and later life and work from being born in Borneo as the child of Christian missionaries, through his childhood in Bible College, being a High School dropout and studying at three universities to becoming an academic, activist and author, and now a writer. Following in the footsteps of New Lives of the Saints: Twelve Environmental Apostles, Black Swan Song also comprises conversations in conservation counter-theology between the twelve minor biblical prophets and twelve environmental apostles, such as Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Rachel Carson. It also introduces the lives and works of twelve more environmental apostles, such as John Clare, Rebecca Solnit, John Charles Ryan, and others who have made a valuable contribution to green thinking and living. Black Swan Song mixes modes and genres, such as memoir, essay, story, criticism, etc., making up the writer's black swan song. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times by providing resources of a journey of hope for learning to live bio- and psycho-symbiotic livelihoods in bioregional home habitats of the living earth and in the Symbiocene, the hoped-for age superseding the Anthropocene.
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- 2021
35. The Transhumanist Movement
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Francesco Paolo Adorno and Francesco Paolo Adorno
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- Human body--Social aspects, Transhumanism
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The book is published as part of the'PRIN 2017 The Dark side of the Law'.This volume analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of the academic transhumanism movement, beginning with the relationship between anthropology and technique. The author focuses on the question of immortality, which can be considered the core of transhumanism. The true depth of immortality will be discussed, through which and how many transformations could be produced in order to change our society, which is basically shaped by and for human mortal beings, in a society composed by immortal persons. Some writers have written about what a future populated with immortals might look like, which is far removed from both the bright future painted by transhumanists and from the disappearance of humanity feared by bioconservatives.
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- 2021
36. Black Age : Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life
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Habiba Ibrahim and Habiba Ibrahim
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- Black people, African Americans, Age--Social aspects, Racism, Human body--Social aspects
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HONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATIONA view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of ageAlthough more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time and time again, excuses for police brutality and aggression—particularly against Black children— concern the victim “appearing” as a threat. But why and how is the perceived “appearance” of Black persons so completely separated from common perceptions of age and time? Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim examines how the history of transatlantic slavery and the constitution of modern Blackness has been reimagined through the embodiment of age. She argues that Black age—through nearly four centuries of subjugation— has become contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement. As a result, rather than the number of years lived or a developmental life stage, Black age came to signify exchange value, historical under-development, timelessness, and other fantasies borne out of Black exclusion from the human.Ibrahim asks: What constitutes a normative timeline of maturation for Black girls when “all the women”—all the canonically feminized adults—“are white”? How does a “slave” become a “man” when adulthood is foreclosed to Black subjects of any gender? Black Age tracks the struggle between the abuses of Black exclusion from Western humanism and the reclamation of non-normative Black life, arguing that, if some of us are brave, it is because we dare to live lives considered incomprehensible within a schema of “human time.”
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- 2021
37. The Body in Crisis : New Pathways and Short Circuits in Representation
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Christine Greiner and Christine Greiner
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- Body language, Human body--Social aspects, Dance--Social aspects, Nonverbal communication
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The Body in Crisis introduces the English-speaking world to the work of leading Latin American dance scholar and philosopher of the body, Christine Greiner. The book offers an innovative set of tools with which to examine the role of moving bodies and bodily actions in relation to worldwide concerns, including identity politics, alterity, migration, and belonging. The book places the concept of bodymedium in dialogue with the work of Giorgio Agamben to investigate notions of alterity, and shows how an understanding of the body-environment continuum can shed light on things left unnamed and at the margins. Greiner's analyses draw from a broad range of theory concerned with the epistemology of the body, including cognitive science, political philosophy, evolutionary biology, and performance studies to illuminate radical experiences that question the limits of the body. Her analysis of the role that bodies play in negotiations of power relations offers an original and unprecedented contribution to the field of dance studies and expands its scope to recognize theoretical models of inquiry developed in the Global South.
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- 2021
38. Neoliberal bodies and the gendered fat body
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- 2018
39. Cuerpo y capitalismo: del cuerpo moderno al neoliberal
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Jesús Alberto Cabañas Osorio and Jesús Alberto Cabañas Osorio
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- Human body--Social aspects, Neoliberalism--Social aspects, Human body (Philosophy), Capitalism--Social aspects, Capitalism--Philosophy
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Cuerpo y Capitalismo, estudia al individuo-cuerpo como el lugar de la apropiación capitalista, como síntesis y reconversión, como entidad alienada, individual y pública en un contexto socioeconómico moderno, posmoderno, liberal y neoliberal.
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- 2020
40. Social Partner Dance : Body, Sound, and Space
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David Kaminsky and David Kaminsky
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- Ballroom dancing--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects
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Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnographic theory of social partner dancing built on participant observation and interviews with instructors of tango, lindy hop, salsa, blues, and various other forms. The work establishes a general analytical language for the study of these dances, based on the premise that a thorough understanding of any lead/follow form must consider in depth how it manages the four-part relationship between self, partner, music, and surroundings. Each chapter begins with a brief vignette on a distinct dance form and explores the focused worlds of partnered dancing done for the joy and entertainment of the dancers themselves. Grounded intellectually in embodiment studies and sensory ethnography, and empirically in ethnographic fieldwork, Social Partner Dance promotes scholarship that understands the social, cultural, and political functions of partner dance through its embodied practice.
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- 2020
41. Talking Bodies Vol. II : Bodily Languages, Selfhood and Transgression
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Bodie A. Ashton, Amy Bonsall, Jonathan Hay, Bodie A. Ashton, Amy Bonsall, and Jonathan Hay
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- Human body (Philosophy), Gender identity, Human body--Social aspects
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This volume brings together scholars from across disciplines and continents in order to continue to analyse, query, and deconstruct the complexities of bodily existence in the modern world. Comprising nine essays by leading and emerging scholars, and spanning issues ranging from literature, history, sociology, medicine, law and justice and beyond, Talking Bodies vol. II is a timely and prescient addition to the vital discussion of what bodies are, how we perceive them, and what they mean. As the essays of this volume demonstrate, it is imperative to question numerous established presumptions about both the manner by which our bodies perform their identities, and the processes by which their ownership can be impinged upon.
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- 2020
42. Fitness Doping : Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health
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Jesper Andreasson, Thomas Johansson, Jesper Andreasson, and Thomas Johansson
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- Human body--Social aspects, Doping in sports--Social aspects, Athletes--Drug use, Physical fitness--Social aspects, Doping in sports, Gender identity in sports
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This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society. Drawing on biographical interviews, as well as online and offline ethnography, Andreasson and Johansson analyse how, in the context of the global development of gym and fitness culture, particular doping trajectories are formulated, and users come into contact with doping. They also explore users'internalisation of particular values, practices and communications and analyse how this influences understandings of the self, health, gender and the body, as well as tying this into wider beliefs regarding individual freedom and the law. This insight into doping goes beyond elite and organised sports, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the sociology of sport, leisure studies, and gender and body politics.
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- 2020
43. Medial Bodies Between Fiction and Faction : Reinventing Corporeality
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Denisa Butnaru and Denisa Butnaru
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- Human figure in art, Human body (Philosophy), Human body--Social aspects, Human body in mass media, Human body in literature, Human body in motion pictures, Human beings in art, Electronic books
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In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.
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- 2020
44. Par-delà les frontières du corps : Repenser, refaire et revendiquer le corps dans le capitalisme tardif
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Silvia Federici and Silvia Federici
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- Human body--Social aspects, Capitalism, Human body--Political aspects, Feminism, Women--Social conditions
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Comment reprendre corps? Comment nous rapporter au corps, cet objet éminemment historique, domestiqué, violenté, pathologisé? Silvia Federici répond: écoutons le langage du corps, sa fragilité et ses imperfections, afin de retrouver, par-delà ses frontières, la continuité magique qui nous relie aux autres êtres vivants qui peuplent la Terre. Mais surtout, identifions la plaie: les rapports sociaux de genre, de classe et de race. Dans cet ouvrage accessible et personnel, en dialogue avec les mouvements féministes contemporains, Silvia Federici entreprend d'extirper nos corps des pouvoirs et des dispositifs technologiques qui les aliènent et les transforment. Politiques de l'identité, chirurgie de transformation des corps, nouvelles technologies reproductives, ce livre examine avec lucidité ces questions brûlantes qui traversent le champ féministe.
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- 2020
45. The Pornography of Meat: New and Updated Edition
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Carol J. Adams and Carol J. Adams
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- Women in popular culture, Pornography in popular culture, Human body--Social aspects, Body image
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For 30 years, since the publication of her landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and her readers have continued to document and hold to account the degrading interplay of language about women, domesticated animals, and meat in advertising, politics, and media. Serving as sequel and visual companion, The Pornography of Meat charts the continued influence of this language and the fight against it.This new edition includes more than 300 images, most of them new, and brings the book up to date to include expressions of misogyny in online media and advertising, the #MeToo movement, and the impact of Donald Trump and white supremacy on our political language. Never has this book--or Adams's analysis--been more relevant.
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- 2020
46. Do corpo ao pó : Crônicas da territorialidade kaiowá e guarani nas adjacências da morte
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Bruno Martins Morais and Bruno Martins Morais
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- Caingua Indians--Crimes against--Brazil--Mat, Guarani Indians--Crimes against--Brazil--Mat, Caingua Indians--Government relations.--Brazil, Guarani Indians--Government relations.--Brazil, Caingua Indians--Land tenure--Brazil--Mato G, Guarani Indians--Land tenure--Brazil--Mato G, Death--Political aspects, Death--Social aspects, Human body--Political aspects, Human body--Social aspects
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Do corpo ao pó é o primeiro livro de um antropólogo e advogado cujo trabalho alia inteligência, talento e generosidade. Bruno Martins Morais está na trincheira, no pronto-socorro, como advogado atuante na defesa dos Guarani. Mas também faz mais: tenta desvendar como eles constroem sentido em uma história de extrema violência. Contra os que acham que é luxo procurar entender o mundo de quem é trucidado, Bruno mostra a importância de fazê-lo. Este é um grande e magnífico livro. — Manuela Carneiro da Cunha Este livro foi escrito em linguagem clara, direta e com tons poéticos, o que permitiu ao autor discorrer sobre o complexo e pesado tema da morte kaiowá e guarani de modo sensível e profundo, sem o apelo fácil à trágica situação de violência e abandono vivenciada pelas comunidades onde desenvolveu a pesquisa. O tratamento dispensado aos dados faz emergir os modos kaiowá de transformação dos sentidos da morte e do morto, a partir do acionamento de elementos de sua própria cosmologia. Tal transformação é realizada em estreito diálogo com a experiência histórica atual, na compreensão e enfrentamento de situações de vulnerabilidade e conflitos fundiários. Nesse movimento, as comunidades se empenham em assegurar direitos fundamentais cotidianamente negados, em especial o acesso à terra. Os mortos passam a ser mais um ingrediente nessa luta. — Levi Marques Pereira
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- 2020
47. Education and the Body in Europe (1900-1950) : Movements, Public Health, Pedagogical Rules and Cultural Ideas
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Simonetta Polenghi, András Németh, Tomas Kasper, Simonetta Polenghi, András Németh, and Tomas Kasper
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- Physical education and training--Europe, Body image--Social aspects, Human body--Social aspects
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The public dimension of the body became paramount in the first half of the 20th century, when the image of the modern man, with his virile stereotypes, became a cliché, in strict connection with nation building first and totalitarian ideologies later. Yet, different cultural and educational trends advocated for life reform and liberation of the body. Both the metaphorical and the material body were invested by cultural, religious, political and educational theories and practices with strong links and similarities but also national differences. Thanks to an international scholarly work about body education in ten European countries, this volume allows a wide comparative analysis about life reform; physical education and sport; children's bodies, emotions, hygiene and (ab)normality.
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- 2020
48. Körperkreativitäten : Gesellschaftliche Aushandlungen mit dem menschlichen Körper
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Angela Treiber, Rainer Wenrich, Angela Treiber, and Rainer Wenrich
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- Human body--Social aspects
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Die Körperbezogenheit unserer Gesellschaft gestaltet sich in einem Spannungsverhältnis zwischen vergegenwärtigendem Wahrnehmen und Erleben sowie dem Herstellen, Gestalten und Darstellen des menschlichen Körpers. Dieses erhält durch rasante technologische Entwicklungen wie Virtual und Augmented Reality, Body Contouring oder Reproduktionstechnologien zusätzliche Dynamik. Die interdisziplinären Beiträger•innen diskutieren in kritischer Auseinandersetzung Kreativität und Produktivität von Körperbezogenheit unter politischen, ästhetischen, historischen und kulturellen Aspekten. Sie verdeutlichen eine anhaltende Wandelbarkeit des menschlichen Körpers in seiner Physis und der Auffassung über ihn - und lassen letztere als gesellschaftliche Selbstauslegung verstehen.
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- 2020
49. Körper und Soziale Ungleichheit : Eine ethnographische Studie in der Offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit
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Anna Bea Burghard and Anna Bea Burghard
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- Social work with children, Social work with youth, Human body--Social aspects, Equality
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Körper spielen in sozialpädagogisch geführten Debatten um soziale Ungleichheits- und Ausschließungsverhältnisse eine weitestgehend vernachlässigte Rolle und dies obwohl gerade der Körper in seiner Sichtbarkeit vielleicht das letzte wichtigste Strukturmerkmal von Prozessen sozialer Ausgrenzung ist. Die vorliegende Studie von Anna Bea Burghard beleuchtet die körperliche Dimension sozialer Ungleichheits- und Ausschließungsverhältnisse in der Offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit. Als eine körpertheoretisch informierte, empirische erziehungswissenschaftliche Studie in einem sozialpädagogischen Handlungskontext beansprucht sie, einen Beitrag für die deutsche Kinder- und Jugendhilfeforschung in der Verschränkung von Handlungsfeld- und Adressat•innenforschung zu leisten.
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- 2020
50. Mediated Interfaces : The Body on Social Media
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Katie Warfield, Crystal Abidin, Carolina Cambre, Katie Warfield, Crystal Abidin, and Carolina Cambre
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- Social media, Human body--Social aspects, Online identities, Internet--Social aspects
- Abstract
Images of faces, bodies, selves and digital subjectivities abound on new media platforms like Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, and others-these images represent our new way of being online and of becoming socially mediated. Although researchers are examining digital embodiment, digital representations, and visual vernaculars as a mode of identity performance and management online, there exists no cohesive collection that compiles all these contemporary philosophies into one reader for use in graduate level classrooms or for scholars studying the field. The rationale for this book is to produce a scholarly fulcrum that pulls together scholars from disparate fields of inquiry in the humanities doing work on the common theme of the socially mediated body. The chapters in Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media represent a diverse list of contributors in terms of author representation, inclusivity of theoretical frameworks of analysis, and geographic reach of empirical work. Divided into three sections representing three dominant paradigms on the socially mediated body: representation, presentation, and embodiment, the book provides classic, creative, and contemporary reworkings of these paradigms.
- Published
- 2020
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