This remarkable book looks at the physical and metaphorical
attributes of the human body as a site of contention, politics, and
cultural protest. Essayists from the social sciences and the
humanities discuss a range of issues, from torture and moral panics
to the "AIDS plague" and the homosocial subtexts of George Bush's
political speeches. Sometimes written in shocking and graphic
language, these essays embrace the notion that there is a viable
place in scholarly writing for anger, sadness, joy, despair, grief,
and celebration-an infusion of passion. The tradition of emotional
involvement in the issues was lost in late twentieth-century
academia but is revisited here through the theories of
postmodernism. Trading upon the theory that good cultural studies
can affect politics, the contributors to this book take on current
political and social issues of consequence. Pierre Bourdieu, Nancy
Armstrong, Stephen Pfohl, Donna Haraway, Toni Negri, George Marcus,
and others tackle such subjects as the politics of pharmacology;
women, war, and AIDS; ethnicity, national identity, and the
Japanese Emperor system; the meaning of property; and the "death
and sinister afterlife" of the American family. These dynamic
essays go beyond examination and point to ways in which the
societies they identify can be improved, rebuilt, or redirected
toward ends other than power, social discipline, inequality, and
violence. The intent of the volume is transformative-assuming that
politics is culture, the essayists attempt through cultural
analysis to offer a means of remaking politics. A compendium of
innovative scholarship, Body Politics bristles with interesting
information and creative energy.
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