Thinking Through the Skin

List of contents

List of plates, Notes on contributors, Series editors’ preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: dermographies, PART I: Skin surfaces, 1. Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art, 2. Mortification, 3. Skin memories, 4. Skin-tight: celebrity, pregnancy and subjectivity, PART II: Skin encounters, 5. Eating skin, 6. Open wounds, 7. Carved in skin: bearing witness to self-harm, 8. Three touches to the skin and one look: Sartre and Beauvoir on desire and embodiment, 9. ‘You are there, like my skin’: reconfiguring relational economies, PART III: Skin sites, 10. Inscribing identity: skin as country in the Central Desert, 11. ‘My furladies’: the fabric of a nation, 12. ‘That is my Star of David’: skin, abjection and hybridity, 13. Robotic skin: the future of touch?, Index

About the author

Ahmed, Sara; Stacey, Jackie

Summary

This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeua engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on this fascinating topic.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sara Ahmed (Editor), Jackie Stacey (Editor), Stacey Jackie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2001
• EAN: 9780415223560
• ISBN: 978-0-415-22356-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 430 g
• Series: Transformations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Humanities, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory