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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456784603321

Autore

Inckle Kay

Titolo

Writing on the body? [[electronic resource] ] : thinking through gendered embodiment and marked flesh / / by Kay Inckle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2007

ISBN

1-282-19234-5

9786612192340

1-4438-0872-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Body marking

Human body - Social aspects

Self-mutilation

Feminist theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking piece of work establishes a "position of embodiment" as an ethically salient epistemological and empirical strategy for understanding, representing, and experiencing gendered embodiment and marked flesh. Developing an embodied, feminist critique of the sociology of the body, the author integrates this position with some of the most recent developments in qualitative methodologies and creative research practices in order to engage with, and represent, women's experiences of...