Parámetros
- 400 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
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The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and social (dis)order bodies and identities bodily norms bodies in health and dis-ease bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin Scheper-Huges, Haraway and Gilroy, and a series of introductions summarizing each section, this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.
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The body : a reader, Mariam Fraser, Monica Greco
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2005
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
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- Título
- The body : a reader
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Mariam Fraser, Monica Greco
- Editorial
- Routledge
- Publicado en
- 2005
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 400
- ISBN10
- 041534008x
- ISBN13
- 9780415340083
- Serie
- Recogida
- Routledge student readers
- Etiquetas
- Escuela, Teorías científicas, Investigación
- Calificación
- 3,75 de 5
- Descripción
- The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and social (dis)order bodies and identities bodily norms bodies in health and dis-ease bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin Scheper-Huges, Haraway and Gilroy, and a series of introductions summarizing each section, this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.