Body Invaders: Sexuality and the Postmodern Condition

✍ Scribed by Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker (eds.)

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 276
Series: CultureTexts
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Panic Sex in America....Pages 10-19
Theses on the Disappearing Body in the Hyper-Modern Condition....Pages 20-34
The Year 2000 has Already Happened....Pages 35-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-46
The Fashion Apparatus and the Deconstruction of Postmodern Subjectivity....Pages 47-60
A Tale of Inscription/Fashion Statements....Pages 61-77
Fashion and the Cultural Logic of Postmodernity....Pages 78-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-98
Carnal Knowledge of Aesthetic States ....Pages 99-119
Body Shops the Death of Georges Bataille....Pages 120-149
The Pornographic Body Double: Transgression is the Law....Pages 150-168
Foucault’s Disappearing Body....Pages 169-182
A Ms.-Managed Womb....Pages 183-200
The Anorexic Body....Pages 201-212
The Challenge of Loss....Pages 213-215
Afraids....Pages 216-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction....Pages 224-254
Letters in Excess....Pages 255-262
Body in Ruins....Pages 263-270
The Dance of the Scarecrow Brides....Pages 271-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-277

✦ Subjects

Sociology, general

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