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Product Description: An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's "exterior" is central to human subjectivity and relations. The authors explore racialization, body modification, self-harm, and comedic representations of skin, drawing from the clinical domain, visual arts, popular culture, and literature...read more

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9780230365063 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 25, 2013, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's "exterior" is central to human subjectivity and relations.

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In this illustrated study Steven Connor explores the functions, roles and meanings of skin within Western cultures.

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9781861891938 | Reaktion Books, January 15, 2009, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In this illustrated study Steven Connor explores the functions, roles and meanings of skin within Western cultures.
9780801488962 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 2005, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Skin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible.
9780801488931 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 11, 2003, cover price $54.50

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Product Description: This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Sara Ahmed (editor) and Jackie Stacey (editor)

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9780415223553 | Routledge, September 1, 2001, cover price $220.00 | About this edition: This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription.

Paperback:

9780415223560 | Routledge, September 1, 2001, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription.

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Profiling human skin as a real and symbolic boundary between human beings and the external world, a biological and cultural study discusses the skin's vulnerability to pollutants, the risks of cosmetic procedures, and ways to keep skin healthy.

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9780805042085 | Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1996, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Profiling human skin as a real and symbolic boundary between human beings and the external world, a biological and cultural study discusses the skin's vulnerability to pollutants, the risks of cosmetic procedures, and ways to keep skin healthy

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