How to Make the Body - Difference, Identity, and Embodiment

How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings together contemporary and historical readings of the body, exploring the insights and limits of established and emerging theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a variety of German contexts. The engaging contributions to this volume utilize and challenge cutting-edge approaches to scholarship on the body by putting these approaches in direct conversation with canonical texts and objects, as well as with lesser-known yet provocative emerging forms. To these ends, the chapter authors investigate "the body" through detailed studies across a wide variety of disciplines and modes of expression: from advertising, aesthetics, and pornography, to social media, scientific experimentation, and transnational cultural forms. Thus, this volume showcases the ways in which the body as such cannot be taken for granted and surmises that the body continues to undergo constant--and potentially disruptive--diversification and transformation.>

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Creech, Thomas O Haakenson
• Assisted by: Deborah Ascher Barnstone (Editor), Jennifer Creech (Editor), Jennifer L. Creech (Editor), Thomas O. Haakenson (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781350194083
• ISBN: 978-1-350-19408-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts; Visual Cultures and German Con
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Germany, Fashion & society, Cultural studies: dress and society, Difference; Identity; Embodiment; The Body; German Studies