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Embodying the Monster

Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

Shildrick, Margrit

Embodying the Monster

Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Embodying the Monster

Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society: Embodying the Monster

 

Asks why we see some bodies as monstrous or vulnerable and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily normality and bodily perfection. Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, this title argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent.


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Beschrijving Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society: Embodying the Monster

Asks why we see some bodies as monstrous or vulnerable and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily normality and bodily perfection. Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, this title argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent.


ISBN
9780761970132
Pagina's
154
Verschenen
Serie
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
NUR
741
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
SAGE Publications Inc

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