(P/B) VOLATILE BODIES

Παρουσίαση

Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Human biology is inherently social and has no pure or natural "origin" outside of culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is "incomplete" and thus subject to the endless rewriting and social inscription that constitute all sign systems.
Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, etc. on the subject of the body, Elizabeth Grosz concludes that the body they theorize is male. These thinkers are not providing an account of "human" corporeality but of male corporeality. Grosz then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women - menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause. Her examination of female experience lays the groundwork for developing theories of sexed corporeality rather than merely rectifying flawed models of male theorists. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction and Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
1. Refiguring Bodies
Part II. The Inside Out
2. Psychoanalysis and Psychical Topographies
3. Body Images: Neurophysiology and Corporeal Mappings
4. Lived Bodies: Phenomenology and the Flesh
Part III. The Outside In
5. Nietzsche and the Choreography of Knowledge
6. The Body as Inscriptive Surface
7. Intensities and Flows
Part IV. Sexual Difference
8. Sexed Bodies
Notes
Bibliography
Index