02264nam 22004695 450 991081680520332120200424112023.00-300-25368-010.12987/9780300253689(CKB)4100000010160639(MiAaPQ)EBC6034428(DE-B1597)546448(DE-B1597)9780300253689(OCoLC)1139710449(EXLCZ)99410000001016063920200424h20202020 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Child of the Century /Ben HechtNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]©20201 online resource (xx, 654 pages)Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1954. Introduction copyright ©2020.Includes index.0-300-25179-3 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Book One. WHO AM I? -- Book Two. THE CALIPHATE -- Book Three. CHICAGO -- Book Four. I WAS A REPORTER -- Book Five. ARTIST, FRIEND, AND MONEYMAKER -- Book Six. THE COMMITTEE -- IndexBen Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. “His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable testament of the era’s great multimedia entertainer.”Authors, American20th centuryBiographyUnited StatesCivilization20th centuryAuthors, American928.1Hecht Ben, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut439000Denby David1667306DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910816805203321A Child of the Century4027044UNINA04893nam 2200685Ia 450 991081039090332120200520144314.01-136-90331-31-136-90332-10-203-84209-X10.4324/9780203842096 (CKB)2550000000098294(EBL)956887(OCoLC)798532411(SSID)ssj0000679027(PQKBManifestationID)11404904(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000679027(PQKBWorkID)10609180(PQKB)11240709(MiAaPQ)EBC956887(Au-PeEL)EBL956887(CaPaEBR)ebr10545524(CaONFJC)MIL506394(OCoLC)786447053(EXLCZ)99255000000009829420110811d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRoutledge handbook of body studies /edited by Bryan S. Turner1st ed.London ;New York Routledge20121 online resource (428 p.)Routledge International HandbooksDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-08011-X 0-415-59355-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover; Routledge Handbook of Body Studies; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Board; List of contributors; Introduction: The Turn of the Body: Bryan S. Turner; Body, Self and Society; 1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body: Mary Evans; 2. Pragmatism's Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience to Somaesthetics: Richard Shusterman; 3. Norbert Elias and the Body: Mike Atkinson; 4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault: Bryan S. Turner; 5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment: Ken Plummer6. Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science and Technology: Patricia Ticineto Clough7. Foucault's Body: Nikki Sullivan; What is a Body?; 8. Layers or Versions? Human Bodies and the Love of Bitterness: Annemarie Mol; 9. Phenomenology and the Body: Nick Crossley; 10. Social Constructionism and the Body: Darin Weinberg; 11. From Embodied Regulations to Hybrid Ontologies: Questioning: Stratos Naneglou; 12. Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism: Victoria Pitts-Taylor; Religion and the Body13. Relics of Faith: Fleshly Desires, Ascetic Disciplines and Devotional Affect in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement: Tulasi Srinivas14. The Body and the Veil: Sonja van Wichelen; 15. Recomposing Decimated Bodies: Nurit Stadler; Medical Regimes and the Body; 16. Death Signals Life: A Semiotics of the Corpse: Lianna Hart and Stefan Timmermans; 17. Beyond the Anorexic Paradigm: Re-Thinking 'Eating' Disorders: Susan Bordo; 18. Disability, Impairment and the Body: Christopher A. Faircloth; 19. The Body, Social Inequality and Health: Kevin White20. Health and the Embodiment of the Life Course: Jenny Hockey and Allison JamesGender, Sexualities and Race; 21. Chinese Male Bodies: A Transnational Study of Masculinity and Sexuality: Travis S. K. Kong; 22. Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men's Bodies: The Need for a Concept of Gex: Jeff Hearn; 23. Racialized Bodies: Maxine Leeds Craig; Technologies and Body Modification; 24. Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint, as Commodity, as Commonplace: Heather Laine Talley; 25. Modified Bodies: Texts, Projects and Process: Paul Sweetman26. Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy: Tiago Moreira and Paolo Palladino27. Rejecting the Aging Body: Alex Dumas; 28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and Illusio: Arthur W. Frank; IndexIn the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies - such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics - have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanRoutledge International HandbooksHuman bodySocial aspectsHuman body in popular cultureHuman bodySocial aspects.Human body in popular culture.306.4/613Turner Bryan S125145MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810390903321Routledge handbook of body studies3963690UNINA