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Remaking the Bodyby Wendy Seymour
Routledge 1998; US$ 59.95In this major new contribution to the field of the sociology of the body, Wendy Seymour interviews people who have suffered profound bodily paralysis and explores their sense of an embodied self. Essential reading for rehabilitation professionals more...
Sexy Bodiesby Elizabeth Grosz; Elspeth Probyn
Routledge 1995; US$ 39.95Through an examination of a variety of cultural forms and texts, Sexy Bodies investigates the ways in which sexual bodies, sexual practices and sexualities are produced. more...
Living Across and Through Skinsby Shannon Sullivan
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 15.95Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them. What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early in the 20th century, John Dewey elaborated human existence as a set of patterns of behavior or actions shaped by the environment. Underscoring the continued relevance of his thought, Sullivan brings Dewey into conversation with Continental philosophers -- Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty -- and feminist philosophers -- Butler ... more...
German Bodiesby Uli Linke
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95Explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German history and contemporary German society. more...
Thinking Through the Skinby Sara Ahmed; Jackie Stacey
Routledge 2001; US$ 58.95This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeua engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on this fascinating topic. more...
Tattoos - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet Referencesby James N. Parker; Philip M. Parker
ICON Group International Inc. 2003; US$ 34.95This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to tattoos. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to tattoos. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing... more...
Wearing of the Greenby Mike Cronin; Daryl Adair
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 23.95Published in paperback for the first time, the first book to chronicle the full history of St Patrick's Day explores the shared heritage of the Irish through the development of this unique national holiday. more...
Young Women and the Bodyby Dr Liz Frost
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 109.00Young Women and the Body sets out to examine why the current generation of young women seem to be deeply unhappy with their own bodies. Dieting and disguising are commonplace, and inflicting serious harm by no means rare in fourteen to eighteen year olds. Despite prophesies to the contrary boys and adults are suffering far less. Drawing on feminist social constructionist perspectives the book seeks to examine this epidemic of body-hatred. more...
Bodies Out of Boundsby Jana Evans Braziel; Kathleen LeBesco
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body. more...
Flesh Woundsby Virginia L. Blum
University of California Press 2003; US$ 12.95When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a culture of cosmetic surgery. more...









