Bodies and Culture

Discourses, Communities, Representations, Performances
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4438-3741-5
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 165 Seiten

Bodies and Culture is a collection of contemporary interdisciplinary research on bodies from emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences disciplines that addresses issues relating to a range of historical and contemporary contexts, theories, and methods. Examining the diversity and capabilities of bodies, this volume focuses on the role of culture in shaping forms and conceptions of the corporeal. In particular, these essays interrogate the role of the body in articulating and reinforcing social differences, especially the effects of racist, colonialist, and other hegemonic ideologies on the agency and diversity of bodies. Bodies and Culture also considers the place of the body in forming identities, images, and narratives of individuals, and the practices of modifying bodies and social roles through physical activities from exercise to artistic performance. This collection will appeal to scholars in a wide range of areas, including literature, anthropology, sociology, art history, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and fat studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janzen, Marike

Talbott, Damon

Forth, Christopher E.

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher E. Forth is the Howard Professor of Humanities and Western Civilization and Professor of History at the University of Kansas. His recent books include The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004) and Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body (2008).

Marike Janzen is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Humanities and Western Civilization Program and coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of Kansas. She has published on connections between literature and social justice in twentieth- and twenty-first century Germany and Latin America.

Damon Talbott is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on the formation of taste and American cuisine at the intersection of consumption, nation, and transportation in twentieth-century history and geography.