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Item Details
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EMBODYING THE MONSTER
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE VULNERABLE SELF |
| By: |
Margrit Shildrick |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£32.39 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1412933463 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781412933469 |
| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD (DIGITAL) |
| Pub. date: |
2 November, 2001 |
| Series: |
Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Pages: |
154 |
| Description: |
Asks why we see some bodies as monstrous or vulnerable and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily normality and bodily perfection. This title argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. |
| Synopsis: |
Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as 'monstrous' or 'vulnerable' and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily 'normality' and bodily perfection.Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
SAGE Publications Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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