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The concept of the body is one of the most recent, and hotly contested areas of inquiry among philosophers today.

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Author:   Donn Welton (Professor Emeritus, State University of New York - Stony Brook)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.844kg
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9781577181255

ISBN 10:   1577181255
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   05 January 1998
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements. Introduction. Situating the Body: Donn Welton. Part I: Contested Constructions:. 1. Sex and Gender. Man and Woman: Rom Harré. 2. Gender and Performance. Selections from Gender Trouble: Judith Butler. 3. Power, Practice, and the Body. ""Material Girl"": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture: Susan Bordo. 4. The Question of Materiality. Material Bodies: Susan Heckman;. Selection from Bodies that Matter: Judith Butler;. Bringing Body to Theory: Susan Bordo. 5. Renaturalization Theory. Renaturalizing the Body (with the Help of Merleau-Ponty): Carol Bigwood. Part II: Constitutional Matrices:. 6. Lived Body. A Tale of Two Bodies: the Cartesian Corpse and the Lived Body: Drew Leder. 7. Body Image and Body Schema. Body Image and Body Schema in a Deafferented Subject: Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Cole. 8. Natural Powers and Animate Form. Corporeal Archetypes and Power: Preliminary Clarifications and Considerations of Sex: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. 9. Affectivity and Eros. Affectivity, Eros and the Body: Donn Welton. 10. Habitualities. The Ghost of Embodiment: on Bodily Habitudes and Schemata: Edward Casey. Part III: The Flesh of Culture:. 11. Biblical Roots. Biblical Bodies: Donn Welton. 12. Situated Bodies. Throwing like a Girl: Iris Young;. Pregnant Embodiment: Iris Young;. ""Throwing like a Girl"": Twenty Years Later: Iris Young. 13. Slender Bodies. Reading the Slender Body: Susan Bordo. 14. Regimented Bodies. Male Bodies and the ""White Terror"": Klaus Theweleit. 15. Sculpted Bodies. Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies: Katherine Pauly Morgan. 16. Virtual Bodies. Bodies, Virtual Bodies and Technology: Don Ihde. Index."

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It may be the most comprehensive and impressive collection to date. Dorothea Olkowski, University to Denver The volume provides an excellent survey of theories of the body that have been advanced during the Nineties Lieke van der Scheer, Ethical Perspectives 5

"It may be the most comprehensive and impressive collection to date." Dorothea Olkowski, University to Denver "The volume provides an excellent survey of theories of the body that have been advanced during the Nineties" Lieke van der Scheer, Ethical Perspectives 5

It may be the most comprehensive and impressive collection to date. Dorothea Olkowski, University to Denver The volume provides an excellent survey of theories of the body that have been advanced during the Nineties Lieke van der Scheer, Ethical Perspectives 5

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Donn Welton is Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has served as the Chair of Philosophy Department at Stony Brook and as co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and has published widely on philosophical psychology, philosophy of the body, and issues in contemporary continental philosophy.

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