American Bodies

American Bodies PDF Author: Tim Armstrong
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814706589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Book Description
Contributors from areas including history, literary and cultural studies, and film studies look at the body as a cultural construct configured by politics, gender, racial categories, fears of pollution, and commercial forces that exploit and regulate it, from the 19th century to the present. They examine subjects such as sailor tattoos, maritime cannibalism, birth control, anorexia, boxing, cyberpunk, and plastic surgery. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR