โ Scribed by Emma Rees (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In this collection leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question โdo I have a body, or am I my body?โ. 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 todayโs key debates about embodiment.
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Varieties of Embodiment and โCorporeal Styleโ (Emma Rees)....Pages 1-15
Edith Wharton: An Heiress to Gay Male Sexual Radicalism? (Naomi Wolf)....Pages 17-33
Losing Face Among the Natives: โSomething About Tattooing and Tabooingโ in Melvilleโs Typee (Graham Atkin)....Pages 35-54
What the Body Tells Us: Transgender Strategies, Beauty, and Self-consciousness (Marzia Mauriello)....Pages 55-73
Tattoos: An Embodiment of Desire (Nina Nyman)....Pages 75-94
Learning Womanhood: Body Modification, Girls and Identity (Abigail Tazzyman)....Pages 95-114
The Construction of a Personal Norm of Physical and Psychological โWell-Beingโ in Female Discourse (Maria Krebber)....Pages 115-135
No Body, No Crime? (Representations of) Sexual Violence Online (Jemma Tosh)....Pages 137-161
Heteronormativity as a Painful Script: How Women with Vulvar Pain (re)Negotiate Sexual Practice (Renita Sรถrensdotter)....Pages 163-182
Queer Wounds: Writing Autobiography Past the Limits of Language (Quinn Eades)....Pages 183-202
The Trouble with Body Image: The Need for a Better Corporeal Vocabulary (Melisa Trujillo)....Pages 203-225
Back Matter ....Pages 227-233
Cultural Theory
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