Overview
Borderline Bodies offers original interpretations of visual representations of the human body as both bounded and porous, fortified and vulnerable, mobile and constrained subject to borders yet capable of crossing and challenging them. It also examines images and objects that are themselves 'borderline', positioned at disciplinary intersections or outside conventional definitions of serious art. By mapping how bodies traverse borders and unsettle categories, the volume reconsiders the relationship between corporeality and traditional modes of representation in art and medicine. Transdisciplinary and transnational analyses of objects from diverse geographies illuminate themes such as identity, racialisation, typologies of the body, encounters between bodies, mobility, and bodily transformation. The result is a fresh approach that disrupts assumptions about the normative human form embedded in Western image-making traditions.
Full Product Details
Author: Keren Hammerschlag ,
Natasha Ruiz-Gómez ,
Tania Anne Cleaves, (nee Woloshyn)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.937kg
ISBN: 9781526182722
ISBN 10: 1526182726
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 16 June 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'In an era that fears breakdown of bodily boundaries and immunities, the chapters in Borderline Bodies challenge us to embrace deviance and exposure and openness. This book signals a transgressive new corporeal turn - a postcolonial materialism - in the borderspaces of health humanities.' —Warwick Anderson, author of Intolerant Bodies and Spectacles of Waste ‘This groundbreaking volume of interdisciplinary visual studies provides wide-ranging analyses of the complex cultures of Borderline bodies across our globalised world. Disrupting scholarly boundaries in art, medicine and society and customary views on gender, race and ethnicity, the authors offer important new insights into visual representations of borderline and marginal human bodies.’ —Anthea Callen, Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture, University of Nottingham ‘A very exciting volume that is sure to stimulate multiple fields of inquiry.’ —Andrew Graciano, Director of the School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina ‘Ambitiously traversing diverse geographies, historical periods, and interdisciplinary methodologies, these essays offer vivid, meticulously fine-grained analyses of a panoply of visual materials. Borderline Bodies reveals the generative potentials of specific “contact points” between disciplines, media, and identity formations, and develops innovative conceptual tools for studying representations relating to multiply-marginalised bodies.’ —Roger Nelson, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore -- .
Author Information
Keren Rosa Hammerschlag is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University Natasha Ruiz-Gmez is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Essex Tania Cleaves (nee Woloshyn) is an alternative-academic and Research Development Manager at the University of Nottingham
