In this collection leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question "do I have a body, or am I my body?". The essays engage with the array of meanings that our bodies have today, ranging from considerations of nineteenth-century discourses of bodily shame and otherness, through to arguing for a brand new corporeal vocabulary for the twenty-first century. Increasing numbers of people are choosing to modify their bodies, but as the essays in this volume show, this is far from being a new practice: over hundreds of years, it has evolved and accrued new meanings. This richly interdisciplinary volume maps a range of cultural anxieties about the body, resulting in a timely and compelling book that makes a vital contribution to today's key debates about embodiment.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Varieties of Embodiment and `Corporeal Style ; Emma L. E. Rees. - 2. Edith Wharton: an Heiress to Gay Male Sexual Radicalism? ; Naomi Wolf. - 3. Losing Face Among the Natives: `something about tattooing and tabooing in Melville s Typee; Graham Atkin. - 4. What the Body Tells us: Transgender Strategies, Beauty, and Self-Consciousness; Marzia Mauriello. - 5. Tattoos: an Embodiment of Desire; Nina Nyman. - 6. Learning Womanhood: Body Modification, Girls and Identity; Abigail Tazzyman. - 7. The Construction of a Personal Norm of Physical and Psychological `Well-Being in Female Discourse; Maria Krebber. - 8. No Body, No Crime? (Representations of) Sexual Violence Online; Jemma Tosh. - 9. Heteronormativity as a Painful Script: How Women with Vulvar Pain (re)Negotiate Sexual Practice; Renita Sörensdotter. - 10. Queer Wounds: Writing Autobiography Past the Limits of Language; Quinn Eades. - 11. The Trouble with Body Image: the Need for a Better Corporeal Vocabulary; Melisa Trujillo.
