The body a reader edited and introduced by Mariam Fraser and Monica Greco.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Notes on contributors Series Editor's Preface Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Mariam Fraser and Monica Greco Part 1: What is a Body? 1. Refiguring Bodies Elizabeth Grosz 2. The Experience of the Body and Classical Psychology Maurice Merleau-Ponty 3. The Burden and Blessing of Mortality Hans Jonas 4. Ethology, Spinoza and Us Gilles Deleuze 4. Bodies that Matter Judith Butler Part 2: The Body and Social (Dis)order 5. Techniques of the Body Marcel Mauss 6. The Two Bodies Mary Douglas 7. Embodied Information in Face-to-Face Interaction Erving Goffman 8. Belief and the Body Pierre Bourdieu 8. The Grotesque Image of the Body Mikhail Bakhtin 9. Civilisation and Psychosomatics Norbert Elias 10. The Political Investment of the Body Michel Foucault Part 3: Bodies and Identities 11. Lesbian Bodies: Tribates, tomboys and tarts Barbara Creed 12. Thin is the Feminist Issue Nicola Diamond 13. Ageing and its Embodiment Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs 14. Divinity: A dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion Eve Kofosky Sedgwick and Michael Moon 15. (Dis)identifications of Class: On not being working class Beverley Skeggs 16. In Novel Conditions: The cross-dressing psychiatrist Rosanne Allucquere Stone 17. Endangered/endangering: Schematic racism and white paranoia Judith Butler Part 4: Normal Bodies, or Not 18. Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology Thomas Laqueur 19. Measuring Heads Steven J. Gould 20. The Body in the Archive Alan Sekula 21. Visualising the Disabled Body: The classical nude and the fragmented torso Lennard Davis 22. Bodies, Disability and Spaces: The social model and disabling spatial organizations Peter Freund 23. Monstruosity and the Monstrous Georges Canguilhem Part 5: Bodies in Health and Disease 24. Complex Systems Emily Martin 25. Portraits of People with AIDS Douglas Crimp 26. The Global Traffic in Human Organs Nancy Scheper-Hughes 27. The Self Unmade: Embodied paranoia Arthur Frank 28. Hypochondriasis: The ironic disease Arthur Kleinman Part 6: Bodies and Technologies 29. Genetic Risk and the Birth of the Somatic Individual Carlos Novas and Nikolas Rose 30. The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of self in immune system discourse Donna Haraway 31. The Pleasure of the Interface Claudia Springer 32. Race Ends Here Paul Gilroy 33. IatroGenesis: The visible human project and the reproduction of life Catherine Waldby 34. Twice Dead: Organ transplants and the reinvention of death Margaret Lock Part 7: Bodies in Consumer Culture 35. Soft-soaping Empire: Commodity racism and imperial advertising Anne McClintock 36. The Finest Consumer Object: The bod

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