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Product Description: Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of these bodies, from antiquity to the present day, to explore how we seek out echoes, caricatures and replications of ourselves in order to make sense of the complex world in which we live...read more
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9781472595966 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 3, 2016, cover price $112.00
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9781472595959 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 3, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture.
Product Description: This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system...read more
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9781498527200 | Lexington Books, May 15, 2016, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance.
Product Description: A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object. Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (1300 BCE - 500 CE) Edited by Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University...read more
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9781845204952 | Box edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 15, 2010), cover price $550.00 | About this edition: A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present.
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9781472554680 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 14, 2014), cover price $172.00 | About this edition: A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present.
Product Description: In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting, yet situated character of the body in society...read more
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9780415331111, titled "The Body And Everyday Life" | Routledge, June 13, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis.
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9780415331128, titled "The Body and Everyday Life" | Routledge, June 13, 2013, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis.
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9783825358655 | Isd, April 1, 2011, cover price $50.00
Product Description: In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture...read more
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9780754676225 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 30, 2010, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities.
Miscellaneous:
9781409418290 | Ashgate Pub Co, January 10, 2010, cover price $99.95
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9780230613478 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2009, cover price $125.00
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9780739109137 | Lexington Books, December 30, 2005, cover price $110.00
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9780739113844 | Lexington Books, December 30, 2005, cover price $44.99
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9780415973663 | Routledge, August 1, 2005, cover price $130.00
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9780415973670 | Routledge, August 1, 2005, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque." In this remarkable cultural history of black female beauty, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus...read more
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9780415974011 | Routledge, July 1, 2005, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque.
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9780415974028 | Routledge, July 1, 2005, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque.
Product Description: In many forms of discourse, specific parts of the human anatomy may signify, or act as a substitute for, the whole body/person: the presence of a large gut may render a man effeminate or represent someone who has lost control of his appetites; visible muscles indicate strength of body, but also constitution or will; a hard penis indicates a male body in a state of perfection...read more
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9780739109335 | Lexington Books, January 30, 2005, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In many forms of discourse, specific parts of the human anatomy may signify, or act as a substitute for, the whole body/person: the presence of a large gut may render a man effeminate or represent someone who has lost control of his appetites; visible muscles indicate strength of body, but also constitution or will; a hard penis indicates a male body in a state of perfection.
Product Description: The human body has recently emerged as a central concept of social theory. Social scientists, philosophers, and scholars in other disciplines now routinely argue that abstract concepts such as class and gender should be understood by examining how they are expressed in the body's everyday practices...read more
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9781572735064, titled "The Body in Human Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Embodiment" | Hampton Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: The human body has recently emerged as a central concept of social theory.
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9781572735071 | Hampton Pr, August 15, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The human body has recently emerged as a central concept of social theory.
Contents: The Body in the Centre. Surgical (Re)Constructions of the Body - The Body in the Margins. The Body and Resistance: Reclaiming the Self in Non-Mainstream Body Modifications - Mastectomy: Phenomenology of Absence, or Reclaiming the Self in Contemporary Breast Culture - « Identity-Alterity: Orlan's Transient Body - Securing the Self, or Towards an Ontology of the Body.
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9783631507186 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 2004, cover price $42.95
9780820464213 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Contents: The Body in the Centre.
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