Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality

by Gail Weiss

Overview

Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everyday existence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415918039
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/07/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gail Weiss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. She is co-editor of Perspectives on Embodiment (forthcoming from Routledge).

Table of Contents

Introduction {Introduction}; Chapter 1 Body Image Intercourse; Chapter 2 Splitting the Subject; Chapter 3 Morphological Fantasies; Chapter 4 The Abject Borders of the Body Image; Chapter 5 The Durée of the Techno-Body; Chapter 6 Écart; Chapter 7 Bodily Imperatives; conclusion {Conclusion};

Editorial Reviews

"Weiss presents a subtle and thoughtful interrogation of the status of the body in our understanding of subjectivity and society. This is a book that is intimately attuned to the complexities of race, class, gender and geography and how they are always lived through bodily structures and experiences. Perhaps more than many of the great theorists of the body,Body Images  makes us alive to how strongly these structures of cultural, sexual, racial and social differences are embedded in lived bodies." — Elizabeth Grosz, author of Volatile Bodies

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