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Talking Bodies

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity

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Editors:
  1. Emma Rees

    1. Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

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  • Provides a timely and immensely readable exploration of how we live in and with our bodies, both today and historically
  • Includes a new essay by Naomi Wolf, one of the leading gender theorists of the modern age
  • Contributors come not only from a range of ethnic, national, and professional backgrounds, but also from different disciplines, resulting in a refreshing, intersectional mix of analyses
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Varieties of Embodiment and ‘Corporeal Style’

    • Emma Rees
    Pages 1-15

  3. Edith Wharton: An Heiress to Gay Male Sexual Radicalism?

    • Naomi Wolf
    Pages 17-33

  4. Losing Face Among the Natives: ‘Something About Tattooing and Tabooing’ in Melville’s Typee

    • Graham Atkin
    Pages 35-54

  5. What the Body Tells Us: Transgender Strategies, Beauty, and Self-consciousness

    • Marzia Mauriello
    Pages 55-73

  6. Tattoos: An Embodiment of Desire

    • Nina Nyman
    Pages 75-94

  7. Learning Womanhood: Body Modification, Girls and Identity

    • Abigail Tazzyman
    Pages 95-114

  8. The Construction of a Personal Norm of Physical and Psychological ‘Well-Being’ in Female Discourse

    • Maria Krebber
    Pages 115-135

  9. No Body, No Crime? (Representations of) Sexual Violence Online

    • Jemma Tosh
    Pages 137-161

  10. Heteronormativity as a Painful Script: How Women with Vulvar Pain (re)Negotiate Sexual Practice

    • Renita Sörensdotter
    Pages 163-182

  11. Queer Wounds: Writing Autobiography Past the Limits of Language

    • Quinn Eades
    Pages 183-202

  12. The Trouble with Body Image: The Need for a Better Corporeal Vocabulary

    • Melisa Trujillo
    Pages 203-225

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 227-233
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About this book

In this collection leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question “do I have a body, or am I my body?”. The essays engage with the array of meanings that our bodies have today, ranging from considerations of nineteenth-century discourses of bodily shame and otherness, through to arguing for a brand new corporeal vocabulary for the twenty-first century. Increasing numbers of people are choosing to modify their bodies, but as the essays in this volume show, this is far from being a new practice: over hundreds of years, it has evolved and accrued new meanings. This richly interdisciplinary volume maps a range of cultural anxieties about the body, resulting in a timely and compelling book that makes a vital contribution to today’s key debates about embodiment.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

    Emma Rees

About the editor

Emma Rees is Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Chester, UK. 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Talking Bodies

  • Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity

  • Editors: Emma Rees

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63778-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63777-8Published: 07 December 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63778-5Published: 21 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 233

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural Theory, Feminism, Sociology of the Body

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