TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burroughs,Catherine B.
AU  - Ehrenreich,Jeffrey
TI  - Reading the social body
SN  - 1587290294
AV  - GT495 .R43 1993eb
U1  - 391/.6 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Human body (Philosophy)
KW  - Feminist criticism
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Beauty & Grooming
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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