Claudia Castañeda

Figurations

Child, Bodies, Worlds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"So much literature in the cultural study of science and medicine has been devoted to the body, but what is a child body? Claudia Castaneda broaches this important question, presenting new and compelling ways of understanding constructions of the child in colonial and neocolonial culture, theory, and history. "Figurations "is an astute reading of the child figure as it is informed by medical and scientific discourses. Especially significant is Castaneda's focus on the transnational dynamics that have shaped postwar medical and humanitarian discourses on the child. "--Lisa Cartwright, author of "Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780822329589
• ISBN-10: 0822329581
• Artikelnr.: 21652898

Autorenporträt

Claudia Castañeda is Lecturer at the Institute for Women’s Studies at Lancaster University in England.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction - Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds
1. Developmentalism and the Child in Nineteenth-Century Science
2. Flexible Child-Bodies
3. Available Childhood: Race, Culture, and the Transnational Adoptee
4. Rumored Realities: Child-Organ Theft
5. The Child, in Theory: Post-structuralism, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis
Notes
Reference List
Index