Fabricating the body : effects of obligation and exchange in contemporary discourse / edited by Sarah Himsel Burcon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burcon, Sarah Himsel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Gender identity.

Sexism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fabricating the Body: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse is comprised of nine chapters that revolve around the body, and more specifically, issues related to identity. The text draws on a variety of criticism-including disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies-to theorize aspects relevant to the human body historically. For example, Rachel Herzl-Betz's ""A Paratactic 'Missing Link': Dorian Gray and the Performance of Embodied Modernity"" uses disability studies as...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; SECTION II; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 31, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5769-6

OCLC:

875097341