Writing on the Body
Title | Writing on the Body PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Conboy |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780231105453 |
This work comprises a collection of influential readings in feminist theory. It is divided into four sections: "Reading the Body"; "Bodies in Production"; "The Body Speaks"; and "Body on Stage".
Writing on the Body
Title | Writing on the Body PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Conboy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231105446 |
Exploring the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body, this volume----complete with editors' introduction----includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class, and sexual categories.
Writing from the Body
Title | Writing from the Body PDF eBook |
Author | John Lee |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1994-11-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780312115364 |
Developed from John Lee's popular workshops that combine meditative exercises, physical action, and emotional release work, Writing From the Body combats the fears, self-imposed standards, and suppressed feelings that block writers' creative potential. It frees those feelings and teaches writers how to use them productively.
The Body and the Book
Title | The Body and the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Spicher Kasdorf |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0271035447 |
"A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority"--Provided by publisher.
When You Find My Body
Title | When You Find My Body PDF eBook |
Author | D. Dauphinee |
Publisher | Down East Books |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1608936910 |
Geraldine Largay vanished in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Her disappearance sparked the largest lost-person search in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive.
Derrida and the Writing of the Body
Title | Derrida and the Writing of the Body PDF eBook |
Author | Jones Irwin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317152689 |
Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, 'the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years'. This book reinterprets Jacques Derrida's work from this period, most especially in L'Écriture et la Différence (Writing and Difference), and argues that a transformation takes place here which has been marginalized in readings of his work to date. Irwin follows with a look at how the 'grammatological opening' becomes crucial for Derrida's work in the 1970s and beyond, incorporating one of his last readings of embodiment from 2000. By drawing our attention to the politics of desire and sexuality, this groundbreaking book engages with the work of key continental theorists, including Artaud, Bataille, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Habermas and Cixous, whilst also examining Derrida's relationship with Plato and feminist theory. It will appeal to a wide range of readers within the social sciences and philosophy, particularly those with interests in gender and sexuality, social theory, continental thought, queer studies and literary theory.
Unruly Bodies
Title | Unruly Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Susannah B. Mintz |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2009-01-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780807877630 |
The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. Combining the analyses of disability and feminist theories, Susannah Mintz discusses the work of eight American autobiographers: Nancy Mairs, Lucy Grealy, Georgina Kleege, Connie Panzarino, Eli Clare, Anne Finger, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and May Sarton. Mintz shows that by refusing inspirational rhetoric or triumph-over-adversity narrative patterns, these authors insist on their disabilities as a core--but not diminishing--aspect of identity. They offer candid portrayals of shame and painful medical procedures, struggles for the right to work or to parent, the inventive joys of disabled sex, the support and the hostility of family, and the losses and rewards of aging. Mintz demonstrates how these unconventional stories challenge feminist idealizations of independence and self-control and expand the parameters of what counts as a life worthy of both narration and political activism. Unruly Bodies also suggests that atypical life stories can redefine the relation between embodiment and identity generally.