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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783168803321

Titolo

Thinking through the skin / / edited by Sara Ahmed and Jackie Stacey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

1-134-59398-8

0-203-28044-X

1-134-59399-6

1-280-06827-2

0-203-16570-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Transformations

Altri autori (Persone)

AhmedSara <1969->

StaceyJackie

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Skin - Social aspects

Human body - Social aspects

Feminist theory

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

Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editors preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction dermographies; 1 Cut in the body from clitoridectomy to body art; 2 Mortification; 3 Skin memories; 4 Skin tight celebrity pregnancy and subjectivity; 5 Eating skin; 6 Open wounds; 7 Carved in skin bearing witness to self harm; 8 Three touches to the skin and one look Sartre and Beauvoir on desire and embodiment; 9  You are there like my skin reconfiguring relational economies; 10 Inscribing identity skin as country in the Central Desert; 11  My furladies the fabric of a nation

12  That is my Star of David skin abjection and hybridity13 Robotic skin the future of touch; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless



re-inscription.Individual chapters consider such issues as the significance of piercing, tattooing and tanning, the assault of self harm upon the skin, the relation between body painting and the land among the indigenous people of Australia and the cultural