LEADER 04468nam 2200889 a 450 001 9910786576703321 005 20230721044545.0 010 $a1-4416-2692-1 010 $a0-8147-1715-2 010 $a0-8147-7298-6 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814772980 035 $a(CKB)2670000000299551 035 $a(EBL)865886 035 $a(OCoLC)819603523 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000340448 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11243839 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340448 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10387825 035 $a(PQKB)11372106 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865886 035 $a(OCoLC)503553779 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10427 035 $a(DE-B1597)547259 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814772980 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865886 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10333710 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000299551 100 $a20090113d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMissing bodies$b[electronic resource] $ethe politics of visibility /$fMonica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 225 1 $aBiopolitics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-1678-4 311 $a0-8147-1677-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe bodies we see, and some that are not here -- Seen but not heard : consequences of innocence lost -- Calculated losses : taking the measure of infant mortality -- Biodisaster : "the greatest weapon of mass destruction on earth" -- Fluid matters : human biomonitoring as gendered surveillance -- "They used me" : manufacturing heroes in wartime -- It takes balls : Lance Armstrong and the triumph of American masculinity -- Excavations. 330 $aWe know more about the physical body?how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes?than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical tourism, and war. This new politicsof visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies?Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch?and to the near invisibility of others?dead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and "natural" disasters.Missing Bodies presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically,obscures or erases them. It poses difficult, even startling questions: Why did it take so long for the United States media to begin telling stories about the "falling bodies" of 9/11? Why has the United States government refused to allow photographs or filming of flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of soldiers who are dying in Iraq? Why are the bodies of girls and women so relentlessly sexualized? By examining the cultural politics at work in such disappearances and inclusions of the physical body the authors show how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society. 410 0$aBiopolitics (New York, N.Y.) 606 $aHuman body (Philosophy) 606 $aBody image 606 $aMortality 606 $aMasculinity 606 $aEquality 610 $aCasper. 610 $aJean. 610 $aLisa. 610 $aMonica. 610 $aMoore. 610 $abody. 610 $acentury. 610 $aerasures. 610 $aexplore. 610 $amanipulations. 610 $asurveillance. 610 $atwenty-first. 610 $avisibility. 615 0$aHuman body (Philosophy) 615 0$aBody image. 615 0$aMortality. 615 0$aMasculinity. 615 0$aEquality. 676 $a306.4/613 700 $aCasper$b Monica J.$f1966-$01513134 701 $aMoore$b Lisa Jean$f1967-$01046350 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786576703321 996 $aMissing bodies$93747383 997 $aUNINA