Body : A Reader

Notes on contributors xii Preface xix Introduction 1(42) Mariam Fraser Monica Greco PART ONE What is a body? 43(24) Refiguring Bodies 47(5) Elizabeth Grosz The Experience of the Body and Classical Psychology 52(3) Maurice Merleau-Ponty The Burden and Blessing of Mortality 55(3) Hans Jonas Ethology: Spinoza and Us 58(4) Gilles Deleuze Bodies That Matter 62(5) Judith Butler PART TWO Bodies and social (dis)order 67(38) Techniques of the Body 73(5) Marcel Mauss The Two Bodies 78(4) Mary Douglas Embodied Information in Face-to-Face Interaction 82(5) Erving Goffman Belief and the Body 87(5) Pierre Bourdieu The Grotesque Image of the Body and its Sources 92(4) Mikhail Bakhtin Civilization and Psychosomatics 96(4) Norbert Elias The Political Investment of the Body 100(5) Michel Foucault PART THREE Bodies and identities 105(40) Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts 109(6) Barbara Creed Thin is the Feminist Issue 115(2) Nicky Diamond Ageing and its Embodiment 117(5) Chris Gilleard Paul Higgs Divinity: A Dossier, A Performance Piece, A Little-Understood Emotion 122(7) Michael Moon Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Ambivalent Femininities 129(6) Beverley Skeggs In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist 135(5) Allucquere Rosanne Stone Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia 140(5) Judith Butler PART FOUR Normal bodies (or not) 145(50) Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology 151(7) Thomas Laqueur Measuring Heads 158(5) Stephen J. Gould The Body and the Archive 163(4) Allan Sekula Visualizing the Disabled Body: The Classical Nude and the Fragmented Torso 167(15) Lennard J. Davis Bodies, Disability and Spaces: The Social Model and Disabling Spatial Organisations 182(5) Peter Freund Monstrosity and the Monstrous 187(8) Georges Canguilhem PART FIVE Bodies in health and disease 195(36) Complex Systems 199(5) Emily Martin Portraits of People With Aids 204(4) Douglas Crimp The Global Traffic in Human Organs 208(8) Nancy Scheper-Hughes The Self Unmade: Embodied Paranoia 216(3) Arthur Frank Hypochondriasis: The Ironic Disease 219(12) Arthur Kleinman PART SIX Bodies and technologies 231(36) Genetic Risk and the Birth of the Somatic Individual 237(5) Carlos Novas Nikolas Rose The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse 242(5) Donna J. Haraway The Pleasure of the Interface 247(4) Claudia Springer Race Ends Here 251(5) Paul Gilroy Iatrogenesis: The Visible Human Project and the Reproduction of Life 256(6) Catherine Waldby Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death 262(5) Margaret Lock PART SEVEN Bodies in consumer culture 267(34) Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising 271(6) Anne McClintock The Finest Consumer Object: The Body 277(6) Jean Baudrillard The Commercialization of Discipline: Keep-Fit Culture and its Values 283(5) Roberta Sassatelli The United Colors of Diversity: Essential and Inessential Culture 288(6) Celia Lury Enterprising Kinship: Consumer Choice and the New Reproductive Technologies 294(7) Marilyn Strathern PART EIGHT Body ethics 301(26) `Clay Cunningly Compounded' 305(7) Peter Brown Orlan on becoming-Orlan `I Do Not Want to Look Like ...' 312(4) Survival as a Social Construct 316(2) Zygmunt Bauman The Body's Problems with Illness 318(6) Arthur Frank The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World 324(3) Elaine Scarry Guide to further reading 327(17) Index 344