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Thinking the limits of the body [electronic resource] / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in aesthetics and the philosophy of artPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.Description: vi, 203 p. : ill. 23 cmISBN:
  • 1417520531 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.4 22
LOC classification:
  • HM636 .T47 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : Bodies at the limit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss -- Histories of the present and future : feminism, power, bodies / Elizabeth Grosz -- The body as a narrative horizon / Gail Weiss -- Cutups in beauty school / Linda S. Kauffman -- Deep skin / William A. Cohen -- Ontological crisis and double narration in African American fiction : reconstructing Our nig / Laura Doyle -- Parallaxes : cannibalism and self-embodiment; or, the Calvinist reading of Tupi a-theology / Sara Castro-Klarén -- Making freaks : visual rhetorics and the spectacle of Julia Pastrana / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Critical investments : AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and queer/disability studies / Robert McRuer -- The inhuman circuit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Mourning the autonomous body / Debra B. Bergoffen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Bodies at the limit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss -- Histories of the present and future : feminism, power, bodies / Elizabeth Grosz -- The body as a narrative horizon / Gail Weiss -- Cutups in beauty school / Linda S. Kauffman -- Deep skin / William A. Cohen -- Ontological crisis and double narration in African American fiction : reconstructing Our nig / Laura Doyle -- Parallaxes : cannibalism and self-embodiment; or, the Calvinist reading of Tupi a-theology / Sara Castro-Klarén -- Making freaks : visual rhetorics and the spectacle of Julia Pastrana / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Critical investments : AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and queer/disability studies / Robert McRuer -- The inhuman circuit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Mourning the autonomous body / Debra B. Bergoffen.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Excludes some or all of the images which were part of the original book.

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