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Reading the social body / edited by Catherine B. Burroughs & Jeffrey David Ehrenreich.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587290294
  • 9781587290299
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading the social body.DDC classification:
  • 391/.6 20
LOC classification:
  • GT495 .R43 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Reading the social body / Catherine B. Burroughs & Jeffrey David Ehrenreich -- The social skin / Terence S. Turner -- The constructed body / Colette Guillaumin, translated by Diane Griffin Crowder -- Lesbians and the (re/de) construction of the female body / Diane Griffin Crowder -- On the semiotics of torture: the case of the disappeared in Chile / Renato Martinez -- "Who kills whores?" "I do," says Jack: race, gender, and body in Victorian London / Sander L. Gilman -- Metaphorical representation of the female body in Edgar Degas's A cotton office in New Orleans / Dolores Mitchell -- Drinking themselves to life, or the body in the bottle: filmic negotiations in the construction of the alcoholic female body / Melinda Kanner -- Unamuno: the body and the myth / Lynette Seator -- Spirited bodies in Earl Lovelace's The wine of astonishment / Renu Juneja -- Locke and Blake as physicians: delivering the eighteenth-century body / Wayne Glausser -- Inter-mediate stages: reconsidering the body in "closet drama" / Michael Evenden.
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Summary: The overarching argument of Reading the Social Body is that the body is cultural rather than "natural." Some of the essays treat the social construction of bodies that have actually existed in human history; others discuss the representation of bodies in artistic contexts; all recognize that everything visible to the human body--from posture and costume to the width of an eyebrow or a smile--is determined by and shaped in response to a particular culture.
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The overarching argument of Reading the Social Body is that the body is cultural rather than "natural." Some of the essays treat the social construction of bodies that have actually existed in human history; others discuss the representation of bodies in artistic contexts; all recognize that everything visible to the human body--from posture and costume to the width of an eyebrow or a smile--is determined by and shaped in response to a particular culture.

Introduction: Reading the social body / Catherine B. Burroughs & Jeffrey David Ehrenreich -- The social skin / Terence S. Turner -- The constructed body / Colette Guillaumin, translated by Diane Griffin Crowder -- Lesbians and the (re/de) construction of the female body / Diane Griffin Crowder -- On the semiotics of torture: the case of the disappeared in Chile / Renato Martinez -- "Who kills whores?" "I do," says Jack: race, gender, and body in Victorian London / Sander L. Gilman -- Metaphorical representation of the female body in Edgar Degas's A cotton office in New Orleans / Dolores Mitchell -- Drinking themselves to life, or the body in the bottle: filmic negotiations in the construction of the alcoholic female body / Melinda Kanner -- Unamuno: the body and the myth / Lynette Seator -- Spirited bodies in Earl Lovelace's The wine of astonishment / Renu Juneja -- Locke and Blake as physicians: delivering the eighteenth-century body / Wayne Glausser -- Inter-mediate stages: reconsidering the body in "closet drama" / Michael Evenden.

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