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Cookie akzeptierenTalking Bodies
- Springer International Publishing
- 2017
- Taschenbuch
- 248 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319637778
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
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