- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (16 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333949692
- ISBN-13: 978-0333949696
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 14.3 x 2.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,401,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Current research in genetics seems to be mapping and determining the past. present and future of the human body. This a moment when questions of control and representation of the body have become vital questions for policy-makers, artists, theorists and cultural critics. Indeterminate Bodies makes a timely intervention into these debates by addressing questions of the body's determination and indeterminacy across a broad range of questions of the body's determination and indeterminacy across a broad range of historical and contemporary fields.
The seventeen contributors are academics and non-academics working in the USA, Ireland, Canada, Hungary and the Czech Republic. In this richly illustrated volume, they consider topics ranging from classical hermaphrodites, Breugal's blind faces and Weimat transgender surgery, via Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, state-socialist sport and Proust, to Barbie, Lari Pittman, American Psycho, IVF, contemporary theatre, political posters, cyber-bodies and video dance. This book also includes the witty and challenging work of young photographers Ajamu and Anda Playford.
The seventeen contributors are academics and non-academics working in the USA, Ireland, Canada, Hungary and the Czech Republic. In this richly illustrated volume, they consider topics ranging from classical hermaphrodites, Breugal's blind faces and Weimat transgender surgery, via Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, state-socialist sport and Proust, to Barbie, Lari Pittman, American Psycho, IVF, contemporary theatre, political posters, cyber-bodies and video dance. This book also includes the witty and challenging work of young photographers Ajamu and Anda Playford.
About the Author
NAOMI SEGAL is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading where she founded and directs the MA in The Body and Representation. She has published numerous articles and is the author or editor of nine other books, including Narcissus and Echo (1988); Freud in Exile (1988); The Adulteress's Child (1992); Scarlet Letters (1997); Coming Out of Feminism? (1998); André Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy (1998) and Le Désir a l'oeuvre (2000).
LIB TAYLOR is a Senior Lecturer in theatre in the Department of Film and Drama at the University of Reading. She has published on women dramatists since 1958, the theory and practice of women's theatre, contemporary performance and deaf sign languages in theatre. She has also edited several volumes of plays including some by Caryl Churchill. She is a theatre director and some of her research takes the form of performance practice.
ROGER COOK teaches Lesbian and Gay Studies in the MA on The Body and Representation and is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Reading. He has published articles and conference papers relating the work of Pierre Bourdieu to the field of contemporary art and is completing a PhD thesis in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Reading. He made brief appearances in some films of the late Derek Jarman, notably, The Garden in which he appeared as Jesus Christ.
LIB TAYLOR is a Senior Lecturer in theatre in the Department of Film and Drama at the University of Reading. She has published on women dramatists since 1958, the theory and practice of women's theatre, contemporary performance and deaf sign languages in theatre. She has also edited several volumes of plays including some by Caryl Churchill. She is a theatre director and some of her research takes the form of performance practice.
ROGER COOK teaches Lesbian and Gay Studies in the MA on The Body and Representation and is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Reading. He has published articles and conference papers relating the work of Pierre Bourdieu to the field of contemporary art and is completing a PhD thesis in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Reading. He made brief appearances in some films of the late Derek Jarman, notably, The Garden in which he appeared as Jesus Christ.
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