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Little Vast Rooms of Undoing explores the relationship between identity and embodiment in public toilet spaces.

List of contents

Introduction: Being (Beyond) Oneself/Part I: The Dis-Embodiment of Identity/ 1. Homo Clausus and the Western Philosophical Tradition/ 2. Homines Aperti and Post-Structuralism/ 3. Corpus Infinitum and Posthumanism/ Part II: Individuating the Communal/ 4. The History of Western Public Toilets since the Fifteenth Century/ Part III: Theory as Practice/ 5. Homo Clausus and The Triadic Intra-Action Order/6. Homines Aperti and Matters of Care/ 7. Corpus Infinitum and the Materiality of Possibility/ Part IV: Entangling Ethics/ 8. Toward a New Ethics of Being/ 9. Epilogue: 'and in a sense/ Works Cited/ Index

About the author

Dara Blumenthal is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer. She completed her BA at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, before moving onto Doctoral research in Sociology, followed by an M.A. in Critical Theory at the University of Kent, UK. While at Kent she held Departmental Scholarships in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research and the School of English.

Summary

Little Vast Rooms of Undoing explores the relationship between identity and embodiment in public toilet spaces.

Product details

• Authors: Blumenthal, Dara Blumenthal, Blumenthal Dara
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9781783480357
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-035-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Human Geography, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity