Lying bodies
Subtitle: survival and subversion in the field of vision
By: Akiko Shimizu.
Series: Gender, sexuality, and culture -- v. 8
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781433101007
Subjects: Gender identity; Body image; Self-perception; Sex
Description: "Lying Bodies explores how to survive with invisible, non-normative identities by focusing on literally 'invisible' differences. The first half of the book attempts a theoretical account of the self in the field of vision, drawing on psychoanalytic theories of the formation of the self. In order for the survival of the self with a visual image that both enables and threatens it, the book proposes the strategy of 'the lying body', which combines mimicry with equivocality. The second half of the book demonstrates possible forms of 'the lying body' through an analysis of specific examples of cultural practices, including works by artists Cindy Sherman and Morimura Yasumasa, as well as the claim of invisible sexual differences by feminine-looking lesbians."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What you see is what you get : behind the politics of visibility; title: A body not of one's own : Judith Butler and the visible body; title: Mimicry and lies : manipulating the visible self; title: Posing for survival : self-photographing in Morimura and Sherman; title: Passing through realities : feminine lesbians and (in)visible sexuality; title: Do you get what you see? Invisible differences and the strategy of paradox.