Common Bodies

The gendered body in its common everyday activities and references is the central focus of this book. Recognizing the highly abstract and often "disembodied" character of contemporary discussions on the body in relation to gender, subjectivity and discourse, the authors of this anthology start their inquiries at a more mundane level by studying "common bodies": human bodies and bodily practices in daily domestic situations, sex, love, violence, prayer, and ritual. From this angle of "corpor...