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What do we mean when we talk about ''the body''? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of ''the body'' throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological ''given'', but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.>
Sommario
General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
DEPTHS
Introduction; T.Atkinson
The Renaissance Body: From Colonization to Invention; J.Sawday
Second Meditation: Of the Nature of the Human Mind and that it is Easier to Know than the Body; R.Descartes
A Case of Hysteria: Fräulein Elisabeth Von R.; S.Freud
The Incitement to Discourse; M.Foucault
DIFFERENCE
Seduction and Guilt; C.Clément
'Who Kills Whores?', 'I Do,' says Jack: Race and Gender in Victorian London; S.L.Gilman
Nietzscheanism and the Novelty of the Superman; M.Boscagli
Male Bodies and the 'White Terror'; K.Theweleit
The Fact of Blackness; F.Fanon
DECONSTRUCTIONS
Womanliness as Masquerade; J.Riviere
The Anorexic Body: Reading Disorders; A.Bray
Bodies That Matter; J.Butler
Intensities and Flows; E.Grosz
E.Probyn
Piercings; M.Torgovnick
Summaries and Notes
Notes on Contributors
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index.
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Tiffany Atkinson
