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What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of 'the body' throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological 'given', but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.
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The body, Tiffany Atkinson
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- Title
- The body
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tiffany Atkinson
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN10
- 0333765346
- ISBN13
- 9780333765340
- Series
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- 4 out of 5
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- What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of 'the body' throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological 'given', but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.