Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self - Rilegato

Alaimo, Stacy

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ISBN 10: 025335532X ISBN 13: 9780253355324

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Stacy Alaimo is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space and editor (with Susan Hekman) of Material Feminisms (IUP, 2008).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 025335532X
• ISBN 13: 9780253355324
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 193