Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self - Brossura

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Shildrick, Margrit

 
9780761970149: Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self
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ISBN 10: 0761970142 ISBN 13: 9780761970149
Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001

Sinossi

Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as ′monstrous′ or ′vulnerable′ and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily ′normality′ and bodily perfection.

Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body.

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Informazioni sull'autore

My long term research interests have focused on the body and particularly on the notion of the anomalous body, whether that relates to sex and gender, to disability, to ageing, or to cyborgs. At present I am working on an international project exploring the phenomenology of heart transplant recipients. My approach has always been broadly postmodernist - or at least poststructuralist - and strongly influenced by the ongoing development of feminist theory and of postconventional bioethics. For many years I have done collaborative work on disability, and the area of Critical Disability Studies has more recently become a sharper focus of research. I have recently finished a new book (Dangerous Discourses) which brings together many of my existing interests as well as extending them into legal theory, queer theory and even psychoanalysis. I hope that any students (or intending students) pursuing dissertations or theses in any of those fields will get in contact.

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Editore
SAGE Publications Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0761970142
ISBN 13 
9780761970149
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
162
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
info@bod.de
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9780761970132: Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

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ISBN 10:  0761970134 ISBN 13:  9780761970132
Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001
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