Thinking Through the Skin

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Ahmed, Sara; Stacey, Jackie

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Sara Ahmed (Editeur), Jackie Stacey (Editeur), Stacey Jackie (Editeur)
• Edition: Taylor and Francis
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 19.07.2001
• EAN: 9780415223560
• ISBN: 978-0-415-22356-0
• Pages: 256
• Poids: 320 g
• Thème: Transformations
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Humanities, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory