Talking Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity
Talking Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity by Emma Rees
English | 21 Dec. 2017 | ISBN: 3319637770 | 233 Pages | PDF | 2.33 MB
English | 21 Dec. 2017 | ISBN: 3319637770 | 233 Pages | PDF | 2.33 MB
In this collection, leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question “Do I have a body, or am I my body?” The essays engage with the array of meanings that our bodies have today, ranging from considerations of nineteenth-century discourses of bodily shame and otherness, through to arguing for a brand new corporeal vocabulary for the twenty-first century. Increasing numbers of people are choosing to modify their bodies, but as the essays in this volume show, this is far from being a new practice: over hundreds of years, it has evolved and accrued new meanings. This richly interdisciplinary volume maps a range of cultural anxieties about the body, resulting in a timely and compelling book that makes a vital contribution to today’s key debates about embodiment.