Elizabeth Grosz

Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism

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Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, and more on the subject of the body, this title concludes that the body they theorize is male.

Produktdetails

• Theories of Representation and
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780253208620
• ISBN-10: 0253208629
• Artikelnr.: 22471687

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Grosz

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
1. Refiguring Bodies
Part II. The Inside Out
2. Psychoanalysis and Psychical Topographies
3. Body Images: Neurophysiology and Corporeal Mappings
4. Lived Bodies: Phenomenology and the Flesh
Part III. The Outside In
5. Nietzsche and the Choreography of Knowledge
6. The Body as Inscriptive Surface
7. Intensities and Flows
Part IV. Sexual Difference
8. Sexed Bodies
Notes
Bibliography
Index