ISBN:
1283901927
,
9781409424505
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (297 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [La Vergne, TN] Ingram, MyiLibrary 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Gender in a Global / Local World
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Body/state
DDC:
303.3/3
Keywords:
Körper
;
Soziale Kontrolle
;
Staatsgewalt
;
Sexualverhalten
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Körper
;
Staat
;
Soziale Kontrolle
;
Sexualverhalten
Abstract:
Body and State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern about, bodies
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Bodies, States and Body-States; PART I: Bodies Modified and Divided; 2 Female Circumcision vs. Designer Vaginas: Surgical Genital Practices and the Discursive Reproduction of State Boundaries; 3 Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource; 4 Organ Transplantation: The Debt of Life?; PART II: Capital Bodies; 5 The Body in Capitalist Conditions of Existence: A Foundational Materialist Approach; 6 Money Bodies; 7 Corporeal Capitalism: Invisible Male Bodies in the Global Sexual Economy
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Asian Bodies/Western States (of Mind): A Postmodern Feminist Reading of Reproduction in East Asian CulturesPART III: Deviance and Resistance; 9 Bodies of the State: On the Legal Entrenchment of (Dis)Ability; 10 Unruly Bodies (Standing Against Apartheid); 11 Moments of Withdrawal: Homeschooling Mothers' Experiences of Taking Their Children Out of Mainstream Education; 12 Greatest Treasures of the Pacific: Mlticultural Genders and HIV Prevention in Aotearoa/New Zealand; PART IV: Sovereignty and Surveillance; 13 Governing Mobile Bodies: Human Trafficking and (In)security States
Description / Table of Contents:
14 The Smell of Power: A Contribution to the Critique of the Sniffer Dog15 The Faceless Map: Banning the Cartographic Body; PART V: The Body Virtual; 16 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg; 17 The Story of the 'I'; 18 Act 3, Chapter 12, Authority; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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