Reading the social body [electronic resource] / edited by Catherine B. Burroughs & Jeffrey David Ehrenreich.
Contributor(s): Burroughs, Catherine B
| Ehrenreich, Jeffrey.
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TextPublisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1993General Notes: Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 273 p.) : ill.ISBN: 1587290294 (electronic bk.); 9781587290299 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Human body -- Social aspects | Human body in literature | Human body (Philosophy) | Feminist criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books DDC classification: 391/.6 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge: | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.
Introduction: Reading the Social Body / Catherine B. Burroughs & Jeffrey David Ehrenreich -- The Social Skin / Terence S. Turner -- The Constructed Body / Colette Guillaumin, translated by Diane Griffin Crowder -- Lesbians and the (Re/De) Construction of the Female Body / Diane Griffin Crowder -- On the Semiotics of Torture: The Case of the Disappeared in Chile / Renato Martinez -- "Who Kills Whores?" "I Do," Says Jack: Race, Gender, and Body in Victorian London / Sander L. Gilman -- Metaphorical Representation of the Female Body in Edgar Degas's A Cotton Office in New Orleans / Dolores Mitchell -- Drinking Themselves to Life, or the Body in the Bottle: Filmic Negotiations in the Construction of the Alcoholic Female Body / Melinda Kanner -- Unamuno: The Body and the Myth / Lynette Seator -- Spirited Bodies in Earl Lovelace's The Wine of Astonishment / Renu Juneja -- Locke and Blake as Physicians: Delivering the Eighteenth-Century Body / Wayne Glausser -- Inter-Mediate Stages: Reconsidering the Body in "Closet Drama" / Michael Evenden.
The overarching argument of Reading the Social Body is that the body is cultural rather than "natural." Some of the essays treat the social construction of bodies that have actually existed in human history; others discuss the representation of bodies in artistic contexts; all recognize that everything visible to the human body--from posture and costume to the width of an eyebrow or a smile--is determined by and shaped in response to a particular culture.
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