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1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The overarching argument of Reading the Social Body is that the body is cultural rather than "natural." Some of the essays treat the social construction of bodies that have actually existed in human history; others discuss the representation of bodies in artistic contexts; all recognize that everything visible to the human body--from posture and costume to the width of an eyebrow or a smile--is determined by and shaped in response to a particular culture. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Reading the social body / Catherine B. Burroughs & Jeffrey David Ehrenreich -- Social skin / Terence S. Turner -- Constructed body / Colette Guillaumin, translated by Diane Griffin Crowder -- Lesbians and the (re/de) construction of the female body / Diane Griffin Crowder -- On the semiotics of torture: the case of the disappeared in Chile / Renato Martinez -- "Who kills whores?" "I do," says Jack: race, gender, and body in Victorian London / Sander L. Gilman -- Metaphorical representation of the female body in Edgar Degas's A cotton office in New Orleans / Dolores Mitchell -- Drinking themselves to life, or the body in the bottle: filmic negotiations in the construction of the alcoholic female body / Melinda Kanner -- Unamuno: the body and the myth / Lynette Seator -- Spirited bodies in Earl Lovelace's The wine of astonishment / Renu Juneja -- Locke and Blake as physicians: delivering the eighteenth-century body / Wayne Glausser -- Inter-mediate stages: reconsidering the body in "closet drama" / Michael Evenden. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body (Philosophy) |
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Feminist criticism.
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Feminist criticism. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-
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Ehrenreich, Jeffrey.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reading the social body. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1993 0877454019 (DLC) 92040753 (OCoLC)27068697 |
| ISBN |
1587290294 (electronic book) |
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9781587290299 (electronic book) |
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0877454019 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0877454027 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780877454014 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780877454021 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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