Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Glory and terror Glory and terror Antoine de Baecque "Fully engaging our fascination with the macabre, Glory and Terror illustrates how certain corpses became highly charged political symbols during the course of the French Revolution. Arguing that the… OL15278178W
Original skin Original skin Maryrose Cuskelly "'Like the air we breathe, we take our skin for granted . . . Yet it is remarkable; it mitigates and ameliorates the sometimes harsh world we dwell in, and is at the interface of so much of what we e… OL15916624W
Body work in health and social care Body work in health and social care Julia Twigg "The first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they … OL15933281W
A cultural history of the human body A cultural history of the human body W. F. Bynum **This book is volume VI: In the Modern Age** Don't be misguided by ending **e1v4** of InternetArchive link **https://archive.org/details/culturalhistoryo0006unse_e1v4** OL15940332W
A companion to the anthropology of the body and embodiment A companion to the anthropology of the body and embodiment Frances E. Mascia-Lees "A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body. In this ground-breaking work … OL16011322W
Culture and the human body Culture and the human body Burton, John W. "In the course of human prehistory and continuing to the present day, culture has played a prominent role in transforming the human form. From birth to death, the body serves as a medium and metaphor… OL1639378W
Body Style Body Style Theresa M. Winge "Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body … OL16521248W
Cyberspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk Cyberspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk Mike Featherstone,Roger Burrows How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presen… OL17814786W
Beyond the body proper Beyond the body proper Margaret M. Lock,Judith Farquhar Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a “body proper”: a singular, discrete biological organism with an individua… OL18607573W
Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man John F. Kasson "In his new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were.". "When … OL2000096W
Dance and the body in western theatre Dance and the body in western theatre Sabine Sörgel "The mid to late twentieth century has been widely regarded as the century of the body, when philosophers, cultural critics, sociologists, and theatre historians spent inordinate amounts of time and … OL20023118W
Media and the rhetoric of body perfection Media and the rhetoric of body perfection Deborah Harris-Moore Against the background of the so-called 'obesity epidemic', Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection critically examines the discourses of physical perfection that pervade Western societies, sheddin… OL20548107W
A Mind of Its Own A Mind of Its Own David M. Friedman,Isabel Murillo Fort "Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the source of satisfaction or the root of all earthly troubles, the penis has forced humanity to wrestle with its enduring mysteries. Here, in an enlightening an… OL2407227W
Embodiment of a nation Embodiment of a nation Cecelia Tichi "From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's vision of Cape Cod as the "bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently … OL3946464W
Subject matter Subject matter Joyce E. Chaplin "With this reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of rac… OL4293958W
The Body in Society The Body in Society Alexandra Howson In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others - we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology … OL5740046W
The DESIRABLE BODY The DESIRABLE BODY Jon Stratton 250 p. ; 23 cm OL888879W