Volatile Bodies Toward a Corporeal Feminism

Name: Volatile Bodies Toward a Corporeal Feminism
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ISBN: 9780253208620

ISBN-10: 0253208629

ISBN-13: 9780253208620

Edition: 1994

Authors: Elizabeth Grosz

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"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new.... I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking." -- Alphonso Lingis"This is a text of rare erudition and intellectual force. It will not only introduce feminists to an enriching set of theoretical perspectives but sets a high critical standard for feminist dialogues on the status of the body." -- Judith ButlerVolatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Human biology is inherently social and has no…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/22/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Refiguring Bodies



Psychoanalysis and Psychical Topographies



Body Images: Neurophysiology and Corporeal Mappings



Lived Bodies: Phenomenology and the Flesh



Nietzsche and the Choreography of Knowledge



The Body as Inscriptive Surface



Intensities and Flows



Sexed Bodies


Notes


Bibliography


Index