The Book of touch
By: edited by Constance Classen.
Contributors: Classen, Constance, 1957-
Series: Sensory formations; Sensory formations series
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Touch
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fingerprints : writing about touch / Constance Classen; title: Contact / Constance Classen; title: Handshakes; title: Tactile communication / Ruth Finnegan; title: The social kiss; title: Skinscapes : embodiment, culture and environment / David Howes; title: Touch in the classroom; title: Handling children : to touch or not to touch? / Anthony Synnott; title: The quiet flow of touch; title: The American touch : tactile imagery in American religion and politics / David Chidester; title: Pleasure / Constance Classen; title: I want to hold your hand; title: The pleasures of touch / Yi Fu Tuan; title: Thermal delight; title: Homely pleasures : the pursuit of comfort in the eighteenth century / John E. Crowley; title: Scratching where it itches; title: Bourgeois love : Mabel Loomis Todd / Peter Gay; title: The caress; title: Desiring touch in Sartre and Beauvoir / Penelope Deutscher; title: The touch of God; title: Pain / Constance Classen; title: Speaking of pain; title: The language of pain in India / Judy Pugh; title: Headaches; title: The tortures of the Inquisition and the invention of modern guilt / Ariel Glucklich; title: Stoicism; title: Primate experiments : Harry Harlow and the technology of love / Donna Haraway; title: The pangs of rejection; title: Sex, pain and the Marquis de Sade / David B. Morris; title: Male bonding / Constance Classen; title: "Threads of manly friendship"; title: The men's house : touching and wrestling among / Mehinaku men / Thomas Gregor; title: Handymen; title: The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part I / E.D. Tyndale-Biscoe; title: The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part II / Satadru Sen; title: School of hard knocks; title: Sexuality and the drill : the body reconstructed in the military academy / Klaus Theweleit; title: Warrior love; title: The dying kiss : intimacy and gender in the trenches of the first work war / Santanu Das; title: A hard man is good to find; title: Women's touch / Constance Classen; title: Women's work; title: Feminine tactics : crafting an alternative esthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Constance Classen; title: Binding women in China; title: Nu shu : inscribing femininity in China / Wang Ping; title: Saarak's crisis : childbirth and weaning among the inuit / Jean Briggs; title: Throwing like a girl; title: Seamstress and marketwoman : working women in twentieth-century Paris / Madeleine Henrey; title: The mosaic makers / Karli Whitmore; title: Warrior women; title: Control / Constance Classen; title: When can a man touch a woman?; title: On medieval manners / Norbert Elias; title: Don't touch the art; title: Touch in the museum / Constance Classen; title: Hands off; title: Spouse beating; title: In a victorian prison : privations of the flesh / Philip Priestley; title: Untouchable; title: Bourgeois perception : the gaze and the contaminating touch / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White; title: Security crises; title: Uncommon touch / Constance Classen; title: Fire in the mind; title: Phantom touch in "The case of George Dedlow" / S. Weir Mitchell; title: Still life; title: Autism and "The squeeze machine" / Temple Grandin; title: Pure touch; title: Rainfall and the blind body / John Hull; title: Balancing acts; title: Tactilism / F.T. Marinetti; title: What's going on in there?; title: Visual perception / Drew Leder; title: Nightmare touch; title: Tactile therapies / Constance Classen; title: Dr. Touch; title: Magical healing : the king's touch / Keith Thomas; title: Sweat baths; title: Ayurvedic medicine and the history of massage / S.V. Govindan; title: Breathing spaces : Qigong and healing / Nancy Chen; title: The healing paw; title: A touch of danger : the bedside manners of the eighteenth-century physician / Roy Porter; title: Domesticating madwomen; title: The golden age of electrotherapy / Caroline Thomas de la Peña; title: The immune system; title: Touch and technology / Constance Classen; title: The mechanized body; title: Polishing your heart / Dorinne Kondo; title: Modernist fictions of speed / Sara Danius; title: "Make it snuggle in the palm" : the commodification of touch / Roy Sheldon and Egmont Arens; title: Nerve endings; title: Grasping the image : when photographs are handled / Elizabeth Edwards; title: The body retouched; title: Digital touch / Mark Paterson; title: Weaving a new world; title: Spacemaking : experiences of a virtual body / Susan Kozel; title: Virtual touch.