Figurations - Child, Bodies, Worlds

"So much literature in the cultural study of science and medicine has been devoted to the body, but what is a child body? Claudia Castaneda broaches this important question, presenting new and compelling ways of understanding constructions of the child in colonial and neocolonial culture, theory, and history. "Figurations "is an astute reading of the child figure as it is informed by medical and scientific discourses. Especially significant is Castaneda's focus on the transnational dynamics that have shaped postwar medical and humanitarian discourses on the child. "--Lisa Cartwright, author of "Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture"

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds

1. Developmentalism and the Child in Nineteenth-Century Science

2. Flexible Child-Bodies

3. Available Childhood: Race, Culture, and the Transnational Adoptee

4. Rumored Realities: Child-Organ Theft

5. The Child, in Theory: Post-structuralism, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis

Notes

Reference List

Index

About the author

Claudia Castañeda is Lecturer at the Institute for Women’s Studies at Lancaster University in England.

Summary

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and science and technology studies, this book provides a remarkable map of the child's meaning and movement across transnational circuits of exchange.

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Castaaneda, Castaneda, Claudia Castaneda, Claudia Castañeda
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2002
• EAN: 9780822329589
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2958-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 635 g
• Illustrations: 6 illus.
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies