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Tables of Contents for Thinking Through the Skin
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of plates
vii
Notes on contributors
ix
Series editors' preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xiv
Introduction: dermographies
1
18
Sara Ahmed
Jackie Stacey
PART I Skin surfaces
19
66
Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art
21
15
Renata Salecl
Mortification
36
16
Steven Connor
Skin memories
52
17
Jay Prosser
Skin-tight: celebrity, pregnancy and subjectivity
69
16
Imogen Tyler
PART II Skin encounters
85
90
Eating skin
87
17
Elspeth Probyn
Open wounds
104
20
Tina Takemoto
Carved in skin: bearing witness to self-harm
124
19
Jane Kilby
Three touches to the skin and one look: Sartre and Beauvoir on desire and embodiment
143
17
Penelope Deutscher
`You are there, like my skin': reconfiguring relational economies
160
15
Margrit Shildrick
PART III Skin sites
175
62
Inscribing identity: skin as country in the Central Desert
177
17
Jennifer Biddle
`My furladies': the fabric of a nation
194
15
Chantal Nadeau
`That is my Star of David': skin, abjection and hybridity
209
14
Shirley Tate
Robotic skin: the future of touch?
223
14
Claudia Castaneda
Index
237