Thinking Through the Skin by Sara Ahmed
This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - already written upon but open to endless re-inscription.Individual chapters consider such issues as the significance of piercing, tattooing and tanning, the assault of self harm upon the skin, the relation between body painting and the land among the indigenous people of Australia and the cultural economy of fur in Canada. Pierced, mutilated and marked, mortified and glorified, scarred by disease and stretched and enveloping the skin of another in pregnancy, skin is seen here as both a boundary and a point of connection - the place where one touches and is touched by others; both the most private of experiences and the most public marker of a raced, sexed and national history.-
Class, Self, Culture
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Consent
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Feminism & Autobiography
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Sexing the Soldier
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Strange Encounters
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Transforming Stewardship
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Mothering the Self
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Judging the Image
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Light
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Feminism's Queer Temporalities
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Irish Feminist Futures
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Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice
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Violent Femmes
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Arab, Muslim, Woman
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Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology
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The Rhetorics of Feminism
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Women and the Irish Diaspora
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Advertising and Consumer Citizenship
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Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics
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Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology
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When Women Kill
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Haunted Nations
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Working with Affect in Feminist Readings
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Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
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Matriarchy, Gender and Power
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Transformations
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Sociability, Sexuality, Self
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Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship
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Difficult Conversations
Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life; The Promise of Happiness; and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, all also published by Duke University Press; as well as The Cultural Politics of Emotion; Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality; and Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415223560 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415223563 |
| Title | Thinking Through the Skin |
| Author | Sara Ahmed |
| Series | Transformations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-07-19 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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