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Body/state
Title
Body/state / edited by Angus Cameron, Jen Dickinson, Nicola Smith.
ISBN
1283901927
1409424502
1409474607
9781283901925
9781409424505
9781409474609
1409424499
9781409424499
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
Body and State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern about, bodies.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Body/state. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2013
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Gender in a global/local world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Bodies, States and Body-States; PART I: Bodies Modified and Divided; 2 Female Circumcision vs. Designer Vaginas: Surgical Genital Practices and the Discursive Reproduction of State Boundaries; 3 Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource; 4 Organ Transplantation: The Debt of Life?; PART II: Capital Bodies; 5 The Body in Capitalist Conditions of Existence: A Foundational Materialist Approach; 6 Money Bodies; 7 Corporeal Capitalism: Invisible Male Bodies in the Global Sexual Economy.
14 The Smell of Power: A Contribution to the Critique of the Sniffer Dog15 The Faceless Map: Banning the Cartographic Body; PART V: The Body Virtual; 16 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg; 17 The Story of the 'I'; 18 Act 3, Chapter 12, Authority; Index.
8 Asian Bodies/Western States (of Mind): A Postmodern Feminist Reading of Reproduction in East Asian CulturesPART III: Deviance and Resistance; 9 Bodies of the State: On the Legal Entrenchment of (Dis)Ability; 10 Unruly Bodies (Standing Against Apartheid); 11 Moments of Withdrawal: Homeschooling Mothers' Experiences of Taking Their Children Out of Mainstream Education; 12 Greatest Treasures of the Pacific: Mlticultural Genders and HIV Prevention in Aotearoa/New Zealand; PART IV: Sovereignty and Surveillance; 13 Governing Mobile Bodies: Human Trafficking and (In)security States.
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