Corpus [electronic resource] : An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge /
Casper, M.author.
Currah, P.author.
Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment and that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection's 14 previously unpublished essays grapple with the place of bodies in a range of twenty-first century knowledge practices, including trauma, surveillance, aging, fat, food, feminist technoscience, death, disability, biopolitics, and race, among others.  The book's projected audience includes teachers and scholars of bodies and embodiment, interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners, and scholars interested in the any of the substantive content covered in the book. The collection could be adopted in courses on the body at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, including: cultural studies; queer, gender and sexuality studies; body and power; biopolitics; intersectional approaches to the body; anthropology of the body; sociology of the body; embodiment and space; digital bodies; anthropology of knowledge production; health, illness, and medicine studies; science, knowledge, and technology studies; and philosophy and social theory.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; 1 Bringing Forth the Body: An Introduction; 2 Distributed Reproduction; 3 Multiculturalist White Supremacy and the Substructure of the Body; 4 Materializing Hope: Racial Pharmaceuticals, Suffering Bodies, and Biological Citizenship; 5 Embodying Food Studies: Unpacking the Ways We Become What We Eat; 6 Epistemologies of Fatness: The Political Contours of Embodiment in Fat Studies; 7 Identities without Bodies: The New Sexuality Studies; 8 "The Bugs of the Earth": Reflections on Nature, Power, and the Laboring Body
9 The Audible Body: RFIDs, Surveillance, and Bodily Scrutiny10 Virtual Body Modification: Embodiment, Identity, and Nonconforming Avatars; 11 Trauma's Essential Bodies; 12 Hold On! Falling, Embodiment, and the Materiality of Old Age; 13 The Gimmick: Or, The Productive Labor of Nonliving Bodies; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment and that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection's 14 previously unpublished essays grapple with the place of bodies in a range of twenty-first century knowledge practices, including trauma, surveillance, aging, fat, food, feminist technoscience, death, disability, biopolitics, and race, among others.  The book's projected audience includes teachers and scholars of bodies and embodiment, interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners, and scholars interested in the any of the substantive content covered in the book. The collection could be adopted in courses on the body at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, including: cultural studies; queer, gender and sexuality studies; body and power; biopolitics; intersectional approaches to the body; anthropology of the body; sociology of the body; embodiment and space; digital bodies; anthropology of knowledge production; health, illness, and medicine studies; science, knowledge, and technology studies; and philosophy and social theory.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Cultural studies.
Anthropology.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Gender Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Anthropology.