Reading the social body / Catherine B. Burroughs & Jeffrey David Ehrenreich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958- author.

Ehrenreich, Jeffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Human body in literature.

Human body (Philosophy).

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The overarching argument of Reading the Social Body is that the body is cultural rather than ""natural."" Some of the essays treat the social construction of bodies that have actually existed in human history; others discuss the representation of bodies in artistic contexts; all recognize that everything visible to the human body--from posture and costume to the width of an eyebrow or a smile--is determined by and shaped in response to a particular culture.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Reading the Social Body; 2. The Social Skin; 3. The Constructed Body; 4. Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female Body; 5. On the Semiotics of Torture: The Case of the Disappeared in Chile; 6. "Who Kills Whores?" "I Do," Says Jack: Race, Gender, and Body in Victorian London; 7. Metaphorical Representation of the Female Body in Edgar Degas's A Cotton Office in New Orleans; 8. Drinking Themselves to Life, or the Body in the Bottle: Filmic Negotiations in the Construction of the Alcoholic Female Bo; 9. Unamuno: The Body and the Myth

10. Spirited Bodies in Earl Lovelace's The Wine of Astonishment11. Locke and Blake as Physicians: Delivering the Eighteenth-Century Body; 12. Inter-Mediate Stages: Reconsidering the Body in "Closet Drama"; Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-58729-029-4

OCLC:

44959982