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The Body - The Key Concepts (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Body - The Key Concepts (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with brand new chapters
on affective bodies, indeterminate bodies, assemblaged bodies and a
new conclusion, and featuring essay and classroom questions for
classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a
concise and up-to-date introduction to, and analysis of, the
complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary
culture. Lisa Blackman outlines and illuminates those debates which
have made the body central to current interdisciplinary thinking
across the arts, humanities and sciences. Since body studies hit
the mainstream, it has grown in new regions, including China, and
moved in new directions to question what counts as a body and what
it means to have and be a body in different contexts, milieu and
settings. Lisa Blackman guides the reader through socio-cultural
questions around representation, performance, class, race, gender,
disability and sexuality to examine how current thinking about the
body has developed and been transformed. Blackman engages with
classic anthropological scholarship from Nancy Scheper-Hughes and
Margaret Lock, revisits black feminist writings from the 1980s, as
well as engaging with recent debates, thought and theorists who are
inventing new concepts, methods and ways of apprehending embodiment
which challenge binary and dualistic categories. It provides an
overview of the proliferation of body studies into other
disciplines, including media and cultural studies, philosophy,
gender studies and anthropology, as well as mapping the future of
body studies at the intersections of body and affect studies.
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