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Leaky Bodies and Boundaries

Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136184627
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Leaky Bodies and Boundaries written by Margrit Shildrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the boundaries of both the subject and the body are no longer secure. The aim is both to valorise women and to suggest that 'leakiness' may be the very ground for a postmodern feminist ethic. The contribution made by Leaky Bodies and Boundaries is to go beyond modernist feminisms to radically displace the mechanisms by which women are devalued. The anxiety that postmodernism cannot yield an ethics, nor advance feminist concerns is addressed. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying feminist philosophy, cultural studies and sociology.

Leaky Bodies and Boundaries

Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136184554
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Leaky Bodies and Boundaries written by Margrit Shildrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the boundaries of both the subject and the body are no longer secure. The aim is both to valorise women and to suggest that 'leakiness' may be the very ground for a postmodern feminist ethic. The contribution made by Leaky Bodies and Boundaries is to go beyond modernist feminisms to radically displace the mechanisms by which women are devalued. The anxiety that postmodernism cannot yield an ethics, nor advance feminist concerns is addressed. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying feminist philosophy, cultural studies and sociology.

Leaky Bodies and Boundaries

Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415146173
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Leaky Bodies and Boundaries written by Margrit Shildrick and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on postmodernist analyses, this text presents a feminist investigation into the marginalisation of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment.

Bodies

Author : Robyn Longhurst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134656920
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Bodies written by Robyn Longhurst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. The text includes original interview and focus group data informed by feminist theory on the body and uses case studies to illustrate the social construction of bodies. It will critically engage students in topical questions around sexuality, cultural differences and women's sub-ordination to men.

Entangled Bodies: Art, Identity and Intercorporeality

Author : Tammer El-Sheikh
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890571
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Entangled Bodies: Art, Identity and Intercorporeality written by Tammer El-Sheikh and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organ transplantation is a medical innovation that has offered the potential to enhance and save lives since the first successful procedure in the 1950s. Subsequent developments in scientific knowledge and advances in surgical techniques have allowed for more efficient and refined procurement, minimal surgical complications, and increased success rate. However, procedures such as organ transplantation raise questions about the nature of our relationship with our own bodies; about our embodiment and personal and corporeal identity. This book is comprised of academic essays, personal reflections, and creative writing from researchers and artists involved in an ongoing collaborative art-science project about the experience and culture of heart transplantation. The writings and reflections included discuss embodiment, what it means to inhabit a body and define oneself in relation to it, including struggles with identity formation; set in both clinical and private spaces. The uniqueness of this volume consists in the authors’ aim of connecting the specific experience of heart transplantation to the more widely shared experience of relating to the world and one another through the body’s physical, perceived, and imagined boundaries. Such boundaries and the commonly held beliefs in personal autonomy that are associated with them are a subject of ongoing philosophical and scientific debate. What’s more, the resources of art and culture, including popular culture, literature, historical and contemporary art, are extremely useful in revising our views of what it means for the body’s boundaries to be philosophically ‘leaky.’ Following the discussion initiated by contributor Margrit Shildrick, this book contributes to the field of inquiry of the phenomenon of embodiment and inter-corporeality, the growing body of literature emerging from collaborative art-science research projects, and the wider area of disability studies. This book will be of particular interest to those with personal, scholarly, and creative interests in the experience of transplantation, or illness in general.

My Leaky Body

Author : Julie Devaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780864926760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book My Leaky Body written by Julie Devaney and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of inflammatory bowel diseases patient and health activist Julie Devaney.

Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality

Author : M. Shildrick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230244645
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality by : M. Shildrick

Download or read book Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality written by M. Shildrick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and adventurous work, now in paperback, uses broadly feminist and postmodernist modes of analysis to explore what motivates damaging attitudes and practices towards disability. The book argues for the significance of the psycho-social imaginary and suggests a way forward in disability's queering of normative paradigms.

Contested Bodies

Author : John Hassard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134644175
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Contested Bodies written by John Hassard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body occupies a prime position in contemporary theoretical work, yet still there is no consensus on exactly what it is and what constitutes it. Contested Bodies brings together a number of different accounts and perspectives on the body, drawing out some of the key connections and disjunctures from this most contested of topics. This volume features fresh and fascinating contributions from some of the leading thinkers and upcoming theorists in the field. Themes that run through the work include: * the place of the body in theory * the notion of labour in the production of bodies * the transformative potential of bodies on spaces. Grounded in real life experience and examples, this key text will be a valuable reference for undergraduates of sociology and gender studies.

Impotent Warriors

Author : Susie Kilshaw
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455262
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Impotent Warriors written by Susie Kilshaw and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name “Gulf War Syndrome” (GWS). This book is an investigation into this recently emergent illness, particularly relevant given ongoing UK deployments to Iraq, describing how the illness became a potent symbol for a plethora of issues, anxieties, and concerns. At present, the debate about GWS is polarized along two lines: there are those who think it is a unique, organic condition caused by Gulf War toxins and those who argue that it is probably a psychological condition that can be seen as part of a larger group of illnesses. Using the methods and perspective of anthropology, with its focus on nuances and subtleties, the author provides a new approach to understanding GWS, one that makes sense of the cultural circumstances, specific and general, which gave rise to the illness.

Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Author : Mark Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429798598
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Bodily Fluids in Antiquity written by Mark Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought. Comprising 24 chapters across seven key themes—language, gender, eroticism, nutrition, dissolution, death, and afterlife—this volume investigates bodily fluids in the context of the current sensory turn. It asks fundamental questions about physicality and fluidity: how were bodily fluids categorised and differentiated? How were fluids trapped inside the body perceived, and how did this perception alter when those fluids were externalised? Do ancient approaches complement or challenge our modern sensibilities about bodily fluids? How were religious practices influenced by attitudes towards bodily fluids, and how did religious authorities attempt to regulate or restrict their appearance? Why were some fluids taboo, and others cherished? In what ways were bodily fluids gendered? Offering a range of scholarly approaches and voices, this volume explores how ideas about the body and the fluids it contained and externalised are culturally conditioned and ideologically determined. The analysis encompasses the key geographic centres of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt. By taking a longue durée perspective across a richly intertwined set of territories, this collection is the first to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging study of bodily fluids in the ancient world. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity will be of particular interest to academic readers working in the fields of classics and its reception, archaeology, anthropology, and ancient to Early Modern history. It will also appeal to more general readers with an interest in the history of the body and history of medicine. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Body Matters

Author : Luci Attala
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786834162
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Body Matters written by Luci Attala and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body Matters approaches the material world directly; it seeks to remind people that they are the matter of their bodies. This volume offers an assortment of contributions from anthropology, archaeology and medieval studies, with case studies from northern Europe, the Near East, East Africa and Amazonia, which variously draw attention to the multiple shifting materials that comprise, impact upon and co-create human bodies. This lively collection foregrounds myriad material influences interacting with and shaping the human body; the chapters come together to illustrate the fundamental fleshy, bony, suppurating, leaky and oozing physicality of being human. Ultimately, by reminding readers of their indisputable materiality, Body Matters seeks to draw people and the rest of the material world together to illustrate that bodies not only seep into (and are part of) the landscape, but equally that people and the material world are inextricably co-constitutive.

Situating the Self

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000158500
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Situating the Self written by Seyla Benhabib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to defend the tradition of universalism in the face of a triple-pronged critique by engaging with the claims of feminism, communitarianism, and postmodernism and by learning from them. It situates reason and the moral self more decisively in contexts of gender and community.

The Body Unbound

Author : Katherine Lu Hsu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030658066
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Body Unbound written by Katherine Lu Hsu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the body’s physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary investigation into how the boundaries of the body define the human form in language. This volume’s essays suggest that the body’s meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its wholeness. The boundaries of the body are areas of transition between states and are therefore vulnerable. As individuals find themselves isolated from their world and one another, their bodies regularly allow for physical interactions, incur transgressions and violations, and undergo profound transformations. Thus sympathy, sexuality, disease, and violence are among the main themes of the volume, which, ultimately, reexamines the place of the body in our understanding of what it means to be human.

A Jurisprudence of the Body

Author : Chris Dietz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030422003
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book A Jurisprudence of the Body written by Chris Dietz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it. Health, and more recently health law, has long been animated by discussions of particular bodies - whether they are disordered, diseased, or disabled - but each of these classificatory regimes claim some knowledge about the body. This edited collection aims to uncover and challenge the fundamental assumptions that underpin medico-legal knowledge claims about such bodies. This exploration is achieved through a mix of perspectives, but many contributors look towards embodiment as a perspective that understands bodies to be shaped by their institutional contexts. Much of this work alerts us to the idea that medical practitioners not only respond to healthcare issues, but also create them through their own understandings of ‘normality’ and ‘fixing’. Bodies, as a result, cannot be understood outside of, or as separate to, their medical and legal contexts. This compelling book pushes the possibility of new directions in health care and health justice. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Speaking Out

Author : Tanya Serisier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319986694
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Speaking Out written by Tanya Serisier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first critical study of feminist practices of ‘speaking out’ in response to rape. This book argues that feminist anti-rape politics are characterised by a belief in the transformative potential of women’s personal narratives of sexual violence. The political mobilisation of these narratives has been an incredibly successful strategy, but one with unresolved ethical questions and political limitations. The book explores both the successes and the unresolved questions through feminist archival materials, published narratives of sexual violence, and mass media and internet sources. It argues that that a rethinking of the role and place of women’s stories and the politics of speaking out is vital for a rethinking of feminist politics around sexual violence and key to fresh approaches to combating this violence.

Vital Signs

Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Vital Signs written by Margrit Shildrick and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From anorexia, sexuality, skin, pregnancy, the mouth, menstruation, biopsychiatry and male hysteria, to the heart, this work examines the relationships between feminism, the body and biomedicine. The book uses post-conventional/post-modern theory in the area of bio/logical body and the clinic.

Feminism and the Body

Author : Londa Schiebinger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191547603
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Body written by Londa Schiebinger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical 'discovery' of the clitoris, to the 'body politic' of Queen Elizabeth I, to women deprecated as 'Hottentot Venuses' in the nineteenth century. The text look at the way in which coverings bear cultural meaning: clothing reform during the French Revolution, Islamic veiling, and the invention of the top hat; as well as the embodiment of cherished cultural values in social icons such as the Statue of Liberty or the Barbie doll. By considering culture as it defines not only women but also men, this volume offers both the student and the general reader an insight into the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study involved in feminist body studies.