Body parts : critical explorations in corporeality / edited by Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier
- Bib ID:
- 3416599
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- Lanham : Lexington Books, c2005
- vii, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0739109332
- 0739109138
- Summary:
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"In this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines in historical and cultural studies examine scientific, medical, popular, and literary texts, paying special attention to the different strategies employed in order to establish authority over the body through the management of a single part. By considering body parts that are usually ignored by scholars - the skin, the blood, the pelvis, the hair - the essays in this volume render the idea of a single coherent body untenable by demonstrating that the body is not a transhistorical entity, but rather deeply fragmented and fundamentally situated in a number of different contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Parts, Wholes, and People 1
- Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier
- Part One: Classifying
- 1 Blood Will Tell: The Vascular System and
- Criminal Dangerousness 17
- David G. Horn
- 2 Bums in the Time of Cholera: Sex, Sodomy, and
- Representations of the Fundament 44
- George Rousseau
- 3 "All the Appearances Were Perfectly Natural": The Anus
- of the Sodomite in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse 65
- Ivan Crozier
- 4 The Primitive Pelvis: The Role of Racial Folklore in
- Obstetrics and Gynecology During the Twentieth Century 85
- John Hoberman
- 5 Hairy Heine, or the Braiding of Gender and Ethnic Difference 105
- Jay Geller
- 6 The Tears of Lacteros: Integrating the Meanings of the
- Human Breast 123
- Fiona Giles
- 7 Enlightened Hands: Managing Dexterity in British Medicine
- and Manufactures, 1760-1800 142
- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
- Part Two: Constructing
- 8 Potential Space, Potential Sex: The Value of the Vagina in
- Transsexual Autobiography 161
- Dan O'Connor
- 9 Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex 177
- Vernon Rosario
- 10 Guts and Manhood: The Culture of the Abdomen in
- Modem France 191
- Christopher E. Forth
- 11 From Pieces to Whole: The Sexualization of Muscles in
- Postwar Bodybuilding 207
- Ana Carden-Coyne
- 12 Working Out the Body's Boundaries: Physiological, Aesthetic,
- and Psychic Dimensions of the Skin in German Nudism,
- 1890-1930 229
- Maren Mohring
- 13 "I Will Kill Myself If I Have to Keep My Fat Calves!":
- Legs and Cosmetic Surgery in Paris in 1926 247
- Carolyn Ward Comiskey
- Index 265
- About the Contributors 271.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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