Bodyworks: Essays on Modernity and Morality
Author:   John O'Neill
Publisher:   Hampton Press
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9781572733916


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   31 July 2024
Format:   Hardback
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In this volume such institutional sites as the media, literature, art, psychoanalysis, and medicine, and cultural practices around disease, death and sexuality are examined. In the introduction the author sets out basic claims for the embodied grounds of communication and the civillzing process and the long history of the inside/outside body. The following chapters raise questions regarding critical conventions in the humanities and social sciences - life/death, good/bad, right/left, rational/sensate, male/female, and nature/culture.

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Author:   John O'Neill
Publisher:   Hampton Press
Imprint:   Hampton Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781572733916


ISBN 10:   1572733918
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   31 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Making Bodies. Two Body Criticism. Renaissances Arts of Aging and Dying. Woman, Nature and Culture: Structure and Difference. The Posthumous Text: Foucault's Autopsy. Bio-technocracy. Horror Autotoxicus: The Dual Economy of AIDS. Two Cartographies of HIV/AIDS. Eating American. (No) Smoking. The Awesome Body of Culture. Only a Body. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

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