- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: North Atlantic Books; 1 edition (April 3 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 097125463X
- ISBN-13: 978-0971254633
- Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 1.5 x 17.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #836,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies.
Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity.
Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.
Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity.
Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.
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Useful, Jan 12 2011
By uimmiu - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations (Paperback)
I initially bought this book because of its beautiful and intriguing cover. It turned out to be a rather useful source of inspiration for a few essays and even a couple of drawings. It also played a part in helping me choose a topic for my BA thesis in anthropology. I must admit that I was rather skeptical when I first saw the book once it arrived - it was smaller than I had imagined and the paragraphs were short and didn't seem to contain much information. Looks are deceiving! Each short paragraph is well composed and introduces the reader to yet another way of thinking of and looking at the art of body modification. It's by no means a full overview of body modification techniques but it will give new ideas to old-timers and it will plant seeds of interest in newcomers.
3.0 out of 5 stars
just kind of ok, Oct 9 2009
By JoseMaria - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations (Paperback)
This book has some interesting ideas. But, in my opinion, the writing (or editing) is kind of lacking. The chapters don't have much depth and it generally reads much like what it is - a collection of stuff generated from a conference. Overall, it's just kind of OK.
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Some essays better than others, but all in all, great, Nov 9 2008
By Erin Michael Vondrak "schismatica" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations (Paperback)
It was a very interesting book and what made it compelling was that it is a compilation of various essays revolving around one topic but all quite unique. I enjoyed it greatly.
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