Overview

Beginning with the provocative premise that the body is the anchor of the social order, this book delves into the multidimensional relationship between sociopolitical bodies and human bodies. It explores the way that prevailing economic and political institutions affect our experience of our physical selves and, in turn, the ways that our bodily senses, energies, activities and desires reinforce or challenge the status quo.

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This is an exciting and timely new collection which focuses on and helps to explain the current fascination with bodies in their social, cultural, biological, and political configurations. This anthology brings together many of the leading and most innovative figures rethinking corporeality today. Exploring a number of trajectories with postmodern explorations of the body, this book raises many of the key questions that not only problematize traditional conceptions of the body (through emphasis in its social, geographical, spatial, historical, economic, and performative dimensions) but also forge the terms in which new conceptions can be developed. --Elizabeth Grosz, Monash University <br> The number of books on body studies continues to mount. Here we have an essential handbook on the social and political reading of the body from an international and comparative perspective. Schatzki and Natter's volume will be a standard one in the library of any one interested in body studies.

,. .for an intriguing, complex discussion. -- The Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review <br>

This is an exciting and timely new collection which focuses on and helps to explain the current fascination with bodies in their social, cultural, biological, and political configurations. This anthology brings together many of the leading and most innovative figures rethinking corporeality today. Exploring a number of trajectories with postmodern explorations of the body, this book raises many of the key questions that not only problematize traditional conceptions of the body (through emphasis in its social, geographical, spatial, historical, economic, and performative dimensions) but also forge the terms in which new conceptions can be developed. --Elizabeth Grosz, Monash University The number of books on body studies continues to mount. Here we have an essential handbook on the social and political reading of the body from an international and comparative perspective. Schatzki and Natter's volume will be a standard one in the library of any one interested in body studies. --Sander L. Gilman, Henry Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, The University of Chicago ,. .for an intriguing, complex discussion. -- The Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review .. .for an intriguing, complex discussion. -- The Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review

Author Information

Theordore R. Schatzki and Wolfgang Natter, founding members of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky, are coeditors (with John Paul Jones III) of Postmodern Contentions and Objectivity and Its Other. They are also members, respectively, of the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature.

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