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Overview

Body/State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern about, bodies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781409474609
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 03/28/2013
Series: Gender in a Global/Local World
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

Angus Cameron, University of Leicester, UK; Jen Dickinson, University of Leicester, UK and Nicola Smith University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Bodies, States and Body-States, Angus Cameron, Jen Dickinson, Nicola Smith; Part I Bodies Modified and Divided; Chapter 2 Female Circumcision vs. Designer Vaginas: Surgical Genital Practices and the Discursive Reproduction of State Boundaries, Emma A. Foster; Chapter 3 Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource, Reecia Orzeck; Chapter 4 Organ Transplantation: The Debt of Life? 1 Adapted by permission of Taylor and Francis from the journal article ‘Repaying the gift of life: self-help, organ transfer and the debt of care’, in Social and Cultural Geography volume 12, issue 8, pp. 889–903. Copyright © 2011, Jen Dickinson, Matthew Sothern; Part II Capital Bodies; Chapter 5 The Body in Capitalist Conditions of Existence: A Foundational Materialist Approach, Ian Bruff; Chapter 6 Money Bodies, Bill Maurer, Elham Mireshghi; Chapter 7 Corporeal Capitalism: Invisible Male Bodies in the Global Sexual Economy, Nicola Smith; Chapter 8 Asian Bodies/Western States (of Mind): A Postmodern Feminist Reading of Reproduction in East Asian Cultures, Ming Lim; Part III Deviance and Resistance; Chapter 9 Bodies of the State: On the Legal Entrenchment of (Dis)Ability, Katie Ledingham; Chapter 10 Unruly Bodies (Standing Against Apartheid), Gavin Brown; Chapter 11 Moments of Withdrawal: Homeschooling Mothers’ Experiences of Taking Their Children Out of Mainstream Education, Peter Kraftl; Chapter 12 Greatest Treasures of the Pacific: Multicultural Genders and HIV Prevention in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Matt Sothern; Part IV Sovereignty and Surveillance; Chapter 13 Governing Mobile Bodies: Human Trafficking and (In)security States, Claudia Aradau; Chapter 14 The Smell of Power: A Contribution to the Critique of the Sniffer Dog, Mark Neocleous; Chapter 15 The Faceless Map: Banning the Cartographic Body, Angus Cameron; Part V The Body Virtual; Chapter 16 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg, Tom Boellstorff; Chapter 17 The Story of the ‘I’, Heather Palmer; Chapter 18, Authority, Angus Cameron;
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