ISBN:
1417520531
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9781417520534
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 203 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in aesthetics and the philosophy of art
Parallel Title:
Print version Thinking the limits of the body
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Human body Social aspects
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body Social aspects
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Human body Social aspects
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Human body (Philosophy)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Human body (Philosophy)
;
Human body ; Social aspects
;
Electronic book
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Introduction : Bodies at the limit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss -- Histories of the present and future : feminism, power, bodies / Elizabeth Grosz -- The body as a narrative horizon / Gail Weiss -- Cutups in beauty school / Linda S. Kauffman -- Deep skin / William A. Cohen -- Ontological crisis and double narration in African American fiction : reconstructing Our nig / Laura Doyle -- Parallaxes : cannibalism and self-embodiment; or, the Calvinist reading of Tupi a-theology / Sara Castro-Klarén -- Making freaks : visual rhetorics and the spectacle of Julia Pastrana / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Critical investments : AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and queer/disability studies / Robert McRuer -- The inhuman circuit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Mourning the autonomous body / Debra B. Bergoffen.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Bodies at the limit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail WeissHistories of the present and future : feminism, power, bodies / Elizabeth Grosz -- The body as a narrative horizon / Gail Weiss -- Cutups in beauty school / Linda S. Kauffman -- Deep skin / William A. Cohen -- Ontological crisis and double narration in African American fiction : reconstructing Our nig / Laura Doyle -- Parallaxes : cannibalism and self-embodiment; or, the Calvinist reading of Tupi a-theology / Sara Castro-Klarén -- Making freaks : visual rhetorics and the spectacle of Julia Pastrana / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Critical investments : AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and queer/disability studies / Robert McRuer -- The inhuman circuit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Mourning the autonomous body / Debra B. Bergoffen.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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