The Body

by Fraser; Mariam

• ISBN13: 9780415340083
• ISBN10: 041534008X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-01-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The body has become an increasingly significant concept over recent years and this reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories which surround 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, as well as a series of introductions summarizing each section, this reader offers students a practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	xii
Preface	xix
Introduction	1	(42)
Mariam Fraser
Monica Greco
PART ONE What is a body?	43	(24)
Refiguring Bodies	47	(5)
Elizabeth Grosz
The Experience of the Body and Classical Psychology	52	(3)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Burden and Blessing of Mortality	55	(3)
Hans Jonas
Ethology: Spinoza and Us	58	(4)
Gilles Deleuze
Bodies That Matter	62	(5)
Judith Butler
PART TWO Bodies and social (dis)order	67	(38)
Techniques of the Body	73	(5)
Marcel Mauss
The Two Bodies	78	(4)
Mary Douglas
Embodied Information in Face-to-Face Interaction	82	(5)
Erving Goffman
Belief and the Body	87	(5)
Pierre Bourdieu
The Grotesque Image of the Body and its Sources	92	(4)
Mikhail Bakhtin
Civilization and Psychosomatics	96	(4)
Norbert Elias
The Political Investment of the Body	100	(5)
Michel Foucault
PART THREE Bodies and identities	105	(40)
Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts	109	(6)
Barbara Creed
Thin is the Feminist Issue	115	(2)
Nicky Diamond
Ageing and its Embodiment	117	(5)
Chris Gilleard
Paul Higgs
Divinity: A Dossier, A Performance Piece, A Little-Understood Emotion	122	(7)
Michael Moon
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Ambivalent Femininities	129	(6)
Beverley Skeggs
In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist	135	(5)
Allucquere Rosanne Stone
Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia	140	(5)
Judith Butler
PART FOUR Normal bodies (or not)	145	(50)
Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology	151	(7)
Thomas Laqueur
Measuring Heads	158	(5)
Stephen J. Gould
The Body and the Archive	163	(4)
Allan Sekula
Visualizing the Disabled Body: The Classical Nude and the Fragmented Torso	167	(15)
Lennard J. Davis
Bodies, Disability and Spaces: The Social Model and Disabling Spatial Organisations	182	(5)
Peter Freund
Monstrosity and the Monstrous	187	(8)
Georges Canguilhem
PART FIVE Bodies in health and disease	195	(36)
Complex Systems	199	(5)
Emily Martin
Portraits of People With Aids	204	(4)
Douglas Crimp
The Global Traffic in Human Organs	208	(8)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Self Unmade: Embodied Paranoia	216	(3)
Arthur Frank
Hypochondriasis: The Ironic Disease	219	(12)
Arthur Kleinman
PART SIX Bodies and technologies	231	(36)
Genetic Risk and the Birth of the Somatic Individual	237	(5)
Carlos Novas
Nikolas Rose
The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse	242	(5)
Donna J. Haraway
The Pleasure of the Interface	247	(4)
Claudia Springer
Race Ends Here	251	(5)
Paul Gilroy
Iatrogenesis: The Visible Human Project and the Reproduction of Life	256	(6)
Catherine Waldby
Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death	262	(5)
Margaret Lock
PART SEVEN Bodies in consumer culture	267	(34)
Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising	271	(6)
Anne McClintock
The Finest Consumer Object: The Body	277	(6)
Jean Baudrillard
The Commercialization of Discipline: Keep-Fit Culture and its Values	283	(5)
Roberta Sassatelli
The United Colors of Diversity: Essential and Inessential Culture	288	(6)
Celia Lury
Enterprising Kinship: Consumer Choice and the New Reproductive Technologies	294	(7)
Marilyn Strathern
PART EIGHT Body ethics	301	(26)
`Clay Cunningly Compounded'	305	(7)
Peter Brown
Orlan on becoming-Orlan `I Do Not Want to Look Like ...'	312	(4)
Survival as a Social Construct	316	(2)
Zygmunt Bauman
The Body's Problems with Illness	318	(6)
Arthur Frank
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World	324	(3)
Elaine Scarry
Guide to further reading	327	(17)
Index	344