{"product_id":"embodying-the-monster-9780761970149","title":"Embodying the Monster","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as 'monstrous' or 'vulnerable' and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily 'normality' and bodily perfection.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e`Shildrick′s study stands out among postmodern analyses of the body by refusing to abandon the fleshiness of cultural life. The scope of this book is impressive and its analysis of \"monstrous corporeality\" and \"vulnerability\" as an inalienable counterpart of what it is to be human culminates in a posthumanis ethics of and for the body that will be the subject of debate among body theorists, feminists and cultural analysts′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Shilling, University of Portsmouth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Excellent text; informative endnotes. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through professionals.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Monsters, Marvels and Meanings  Monstering the (M)Other The Self′s Clean and Proper Body Contagious Encounters and the Ethics of Risk Levinas and Vulnerable Becoming The Relational Economy of Touch Welcoming the Monstrous Arrivant","brand":"SAGE Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768007491927,"sku":"9780761970149","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761970149.jpg?v=1758715877","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/embodying-the-monster-9780761970149","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}