Embodying the monster : encounters with the vulnerable self / Margrit Shildrick.
Material type: TextSeries: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Publication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 153 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781412933469
- 1412933463
- 0761970142
- 9780761970149
- 9781446220573
- 1446220575
- Body image
- Abnormalities, Human
- Body Image
- Image du corps
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Abnormalities, Human
- Body image
- Körperbild
- Ungeheuer
- Körperbild
- Selbst -- Andersheit -- Philosophie
- Körperbild -- Andersheit -- Selbst -- Philosophie
- 306.4 21
- BF697.5.B63 S54 2002eb
- CC 7265
- DT 9000
- LC 59000
- MS 3040
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-148) and index.
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Margrit Shildrick's exploration of the monstrous reveals how humans register concepts of bodily normality and perfection. The author calls upon society to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractiveness.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Monsters, Marvels and Meanings; Chapter 2 -- Monstering the (M)other; Chapter 3 -- The Self's Clean and Proper Body; Chapter 4 -- Contagious Encounters and the Ethics of Risk; Chapter 5 -- Levinas and Vulnerable Becoming; Chapter 6 -- The Relational Economy of Touch; Chapter 7 -- Welcoming the Monstrous "Arrivant"; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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