Embodying the Monster : Encounters with the Vulnerable Self (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Shildrick, Margrit

SAGE Publications Inc（2001/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 154 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780761970149
• DDC分類 306.4

基本説明

Asks why we see some bodies as 'monstrous' or 'vulnerable' and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily 'normality' and bodily perfection.
"Theory, Culture and Society"

Full Description

Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as 'monstrous' or 'vulnerable' and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily 'normality' and bodily perfection.

Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body.

Contents

Introduction
Monsters, Marvels and Meanings
Monstering the (M)Other
The Self's Clean and Proper Body
Contagious Encounters and the Ethics of Risk
Levinas and Vulnerable Becoming
The Relational Economy of Touch
Welcoming the Monstrous Arrivant