Talking Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity

Book Overview

In this collection leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question "do I have a body, or am I my body?". The essays engage with the array of meanings that our bodies have today, ranging from considerations of nineteenth-century discourses of bodily shame and otherness, through to arguing for a brand new corporeal vocabulary for the twenty-first century. Increasing numbers of people are choosing to modify their bodies, but as the essays in this volume show, this is far from being a new practice: over hundreds of years, it has evolved and accrued new meanings. This richly interdisciplinary volume maps a range of cultural anxieties about the body, resulting in a timely and compelling book that makes a vital contribution to today's key debates about embodiment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319637770
• ISBN13: 9783319637778
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"