Indeterminate Bodies

by Roger Cook

Book Overview

This collection looks from a variety of angles at the human body as it resists the determinations of gender, sexuality, socialisation and history. Ranging from classical hermaphrodites, Bruegel's blind faces and Weimar transgender surgery, via Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, state-socialist sport and Proust, to Barbie, Lari Pittman, American Psycho, IVF and video dance, the sixteen essays question the relationship between politics, culture and desire. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333949692
• ISBN13: 9780333949696
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.0"