In the flesh : the cultural politics of body modification / Victoria L. Pitts.

  • Pitts-Taylor, Victoria.
Date:
2003
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Publication/Creation

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Physical description

vi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition

1st Palgrave Macmillan ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-234) and index.

Contents

Bodies of power: new body art technologies -- Subversive bodies, invented selves: theorizing body politics -- Reclaiming the female body: women body modifiers and feminist debates -- Visibly queer: body technologies and sexual politics -- Modern primitivism and the deployment of the other -- Cyberpunk, biomedicine, and the high-tech body -- Reading the postmodern techno-body.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 0312293119
  • 0312293100