Violence and the body : race, gender, and the state / edited by Arturo J. Aldama ; foreword by Alfred Arteaga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldama, Arturo J., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Social control.

Feminist theory.

Human body--Political aspects.

Human body.

Human body--Social aspects.

Race relations--Political aspects.

Race relations.

Sexism.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State explores the relationship between subalternity, the discourse and technology of the body, and the rise and proliferation of racial, colonial, sexual, domestic, and state violence, examining the materiality of violence on the ""otherized"" body. Grounded in U.S./Mexico border and Latin American cultural studies, the essays in this collection intersect discussions of subalternity, violence, and discourses of the body in a transethnic, feminist, an

Contents:

Chapter 5. Bodily Metaphors, Material Exclusions: The Sexual and Racial Politics of Domestic Partnership in FranceChapter 6. Mattering National Bodies and Sexualities: Corporeal Contest in Marcos and Brocka; Chapter 7. The Time of Violence: Deconstruction and Value; Chapter 8. Consuming Cannibalism: The Body in Australia's Pacific Archive; Chapter 9. Global Genocide & Biocolonialism: On the Effect of the Human Genome Diversity Project on Targeted Indigenous Peopl; Chapter 10. Angola, Convict Leasing, and the Annulment of Freedom: The Vectors of Architectural and Discursive Violence ...

Chapter 11. Bernhard Goetz and the Politics of FearChapter 12. Pierced Tongues: Language and Violence in Carmen Boullosa's Dystopia; Chapter 13. Constituting Transgressive Interiorities: Nineteenth-Century Psychiatric Readings of Morally Mad Bodies; Chapter 14. When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential: A Somewhat Sordid Meditation on What Might Occur ...; Chapter 15. Double Cross: Transmasculinity and Asian American Gendering in Trappings of Transhood; Chapter 16. Teumsae-eso: Korean American Women between Feminism and Nationalism

Chapter 17. Mapuche Shamanic Bodies and the Chilean State: Polemic Gendered Representations and Indigenous ResponsesChapter 18. Re/membering the Body: Latina Testimonies of Social and Family Violence; Chapter 19: Sita's War and the Body Politic: Violence and Abuse in the Lives of South Asian Women; Chapter 20: Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin limites and the Hell of Heteronormativity; Chapter 21. Medicalizing Human Rights and Domesticating Violence in Postdictatorship Market-States

Chapter 22. Las Super Madres de Latino America: Transforming Motherhood and Houseskirts by Challenging Violence in Juarez ...Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-253-10988-4

OCLC:

53149108