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Body Images

Embodiment as Intercorporeality

By Gail Weiss

Published October 7th 1998 by Routledge – 224 pages

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    Description

    Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everyday existence.

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    "Weiss presents a subtle and thoughtful interrogation of the status of the body in our understanding of subjectivity and society. This is a book that is intimately attuned to the complexities of race, class, gender and geography and how they are always lived through bodily structures and experiences. Perhaps more than many of the great theorists of the body,Body Images makes us alive to how strongly these structures of cultural, sexual, racial and social differences are embedded in lived bodies." -- Elizabeth Grosz, author of Volatile Bodies

    Author Bio

    Gail Weiss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. She is co-editor of Perspectives on Embodiment (forthcoming from Routledge).

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    Name: Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: By Gail Weiss. Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everyday...
    Categories: Philosophy