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Indeterminate Bodies Naomi Segal

Indeterminate Bodies By Naomi Segal

Indeterminate Bodies by Naomi Segal


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Ranging from classical hermaphrodites, Bruegel's blind faces and Weimar transgender surgery, via Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , state-socialist sport and Proust, to Barbie, Lari Pittman, American Psycho , IVF and video dance, the sixteen essays question the relationship between politics, culture and desire.

Indeterminate Bodies Summary

Indeterminate Bodies by Naomi Segal

This collection looks from a variety of angles at the human body as it resists the determinations of gender, sexuality, socialisation and history. Ranging from classical hermaphrodites, Bruegel's blind faces and Weimar transgender surgery, via Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , state-socialist sport and Proust, to Barbie, Lari Pittman, American Psycho , IVF and video dance, the sixteen essays question the relationship between politics, culture and desire. This richly illustrated book also features the original work of two young photographers and a theatre director.

About Naomi Segal

AJAMU self-taught photographer, SM/cultural activist and black queer arts festival producer JONATHAN BIGNELL Senior Lecturer in Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London MARTA CSABAI Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Institute of Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest SHERRIL DODDS Lecturer in Dance Studies, University of Surrey FERENC EROES Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Social and Cultural Psychology, Research Institute for Psychology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and Professor of Social Psychology, University of Pecs DAVID FORGACS Professor of Italian, University College London FRANCESCA FROY attended the MA in The Body and Representation, University of Reading, 1995-6 following a degree in Anthropology SANDER L. GILMAN Distinguished Professor of the Libral Arts and Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago and Director of the Humanities Laboratory KARIN LESNIK-OBERSTEIN Lecturer in English Literature, University of Reading and Deputy Director of the University's Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL) ANNA MCMULLAN Director of the MPhil in Irish Theatre and Film at the School of Drama, Trinity College Dublin MICHELLE MEAGHER completed the MA on The Body and Representation, University of Reading, 1997 LIBORA OATES-INDRUCHOVA teaches literary theory and gender studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Pardubice University, Czech Republic VANDA PLAYFORD artist and doctor ANN SCOTT Senior Lecturer, School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London and Deputy Editor, British Journal of Psychotherapy REX STAINTON ROGERS was, until his death in 1999, a Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading WENDY STAINTON ROGERS Head of the Research School, Open University CAROLYN D. WILLIAMS Lecturer in English, University of Reading

Table of Contents

Introduction; L.Taylor, N.Segal & R.Cook Prefatory Essay: The Tale of Nema; R. Stainton Rogers & W.Stainton Rogers On Wanting a Child or: An Idea of Desire; K.Lesnik-Oberstein Where is Action Man's Penis? Determinations of Gender; J. Bignell The Ideology of the Genderless Sporting Body: Reflections on the Czech State-Socialist Concept of Physical Culture; L.Oates-Indruchova 'Lying Beneath Me She is Only a Shape': Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and the Representation of Madness; A.Scott Determined Indeterminacy in the Work of Lari Pittman; R.Cook 'The Some had Rather it Were She than I ': Sexing the Textual Body; N.Segal Not from Adam's Rib: The Origins of Transgender Surgery in Weimar Culture; S.L.Gilman 'Sweet Hee-She-Coupled-One': Unspeakable Hermaphrodites; C.Williams In/determinacy in Cyberspace; F.Froy Flaunting the Feminine; M.Meagher Shape-Shifting and Role-Splitting: Theatre, Body and Identity; L.Taylor Unhomely Bodies and Dislocated Identities in the Drama of Frank McGuinness and Marina Carr; A.McMullan Blindness and the Politics of the Gaze; D.Forgacs Bodies in Transition, or the Unbearable Lightness of the Transitionless Self; M.Csabai & F.Eroes Revolution in Video Dance: The Construction of a Fluid Body; S.Dodds

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NLS9781349663934
9781349663934
134966393X
Indeterminate Bodies by Naomi Segal
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2003-09-16
275
N/A
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