Talking Bodies

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-12-07
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt330 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor233
Upplaga17001
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319637778

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1. Introduction: Varieties of Embodiment and ‘Corporeal Style’; Emma L. E. Rees.- 2. Edith Wharton: an Heiress to Gay Male Sexual Radicalism?; Naomi Wolf.- 3. Losing Face Among the Natives: ‘something about tattooing and tabooing’ in Melville’s Typee; Graham Atkin.- 4. What the Body Tells us: Transgender Strategies, Beauty, and Self-Consciousness; Marzia Mauriello.- 5.Tattoos: an Embodiment of Desire; Nina Nyman.- 6. Learning Womanhood: Body Modification, Girls and Identity; Abigail Tazzyman.- 7. The Construction of a Personal Norm of Physical and Psychological ‘Well-Being’ in Female Discourse; Maria Krebber.- 8. No Body, No Crime? (Representations of) Sexual Violence Online; Jemma Tosh.- 9. Heteronormativity as a Painful Script: How Women with Vulvar Pain (re)Negotiate Sexual Practice; Renita Sörensdotter.- 10. Queer Wounds: Writing Autobiography Past the Limits of Language; Quinn Eades.- 11.The Trouble with Body Image: the Need for a Better Corporeal Vocabulary; Melisa Trujillo.