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Body/State (Paperback)
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Body/State (Paperback)
Series: Gender in a Global/Local World
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Body/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. Divided into
five parts, the first part, 'Bodies Modified and Divided' considers
how the production, regulation, policing and maintenance of borders
(physical, social, sexual, political, religious, etc.) are used to
enable or constrain the physical (re)shaping of the body. Part two,
'Capital Bodies', extends the state's concern with the flows of
bodies that make up the nation to consider how they are enrolled in
the complex structures of capitalist exchange that form the basis
for maintaining and contesting a set of relationships between
states and markets. Part three, 'Deviance and Resistance', examines
both how states seek to discipline 'non-normal' bodies and
appreciates the capacity of changes in the socio-cultural meaning
and nature of bodies to resist and/or escape states. Part four,
'Sovereignty and Surveillance', develops themes of deviancy and
resistance by considering the impact of new technologies both on
the intimate regulatory reach of states into and across bodies and
on the nature of embodiment itself. Finally, Part five, 'The Body
Virtual', examines the impact of new technologies and online spaces
both on the intimate regulatory reach of states into and across
bodies and on the nature of embodiment itself. A varied collection
of essays that address important and complex topics in a readable
and creative way.
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