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Missing bodies : the politics of visibility / Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Casper, Monica J., 1966-
- Series:
- Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
- Biopolitics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body (Philosophy).
- Body image.
- Mortality.
- Masculinity.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- x, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- We know more about the physical body-how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes-than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and recognition of the body in the twenty-first century. This new politics of visibility, enabled by cutting-edge technologies and practices, can lead to the overexposure of some bodies-white people, presidents and celebrities, Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch-and to the near invisibility of others-injured or killed Iraqi civilians, impoverished women, dead babies, the victims of HIV/AIDS and "natural" disasters. Missing Bodies presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically, obscures or erases them.
- About the cover: Shoes of protesting demonstrators litter the street of Chahabahil, Nepal. Nepali troops opened fire on anti-monarchy protesters and killed one man, witnesses and officials said, as international pressure increased on King Gyanendra to restore multi-party democracy, April 17, 2006. © Danish Ismail / Reuters / Corbis.
- Contents:
- The bodies we see, and some that are not here
- Seen but not heard : consequences of innocence lost
- Calculated losses : taking the measure of infant mortality
- Biodisaster : "the greatest weapon of mass destruction on earth"
- Fluid matters : human biomonitoring as gendered surveillance
- "They used me" : manufacturing heroes in wartime
- It takes balls : Lance Armstrong and the triumph of American masculinity
- Excavations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814716779
- 0814716776
- 9780814716786
- 0814716784
- OCLC:
- 276816828
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