Body Invaders
Sexuality and the Postmodern Condition
Published on 19. February 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-333-46840-1 (ISBN)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-46840-1 (9780333468401)
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Content
PART 1 BODY INVADERS - Panic Sex at the fin-de-millenium; A&M Kroker - Theses on the Disappearing Body in the Hypermodern Condition; A&M Kroker - The Year 2000 Will Not Come to Pass; J.Baudrillard - PART 2 BODY MAPS - Introduction: Fashion Holograms - The Fashion Apparatus and the Deconstruction of Postmodern Subjectivity; J.Emberley - A Tale of Inscription: Fashion Statements; K.Sawchuk - Fashion and the Cultural Logic of Postmodernity; G.Faurschou - PART 3 BODY PROBES - Introduction: Ideology and Erotics - Carnal Knowledge of Aesthetic States: The Infantile Body, the Sign, and the Postmortemist Condition; C.Levin - Body Shops: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Death of Georges Bataille; A.Haase - The Pornographer's Body Double: Transgression is the Law; B.Kaite - Foucault's Disappearing Body; G.Ostrander - PART 4 PANIC BODIES - A Ms. Managed Womb; E.Manion - The Anorexic Body; E.Probyn - The Challenge of Loss; S.Schoenbaum - Afraids; S.K.Anderson - PART 5 BODY WRITING - Criminological Displacements; S.Pfohl & A.Gordon - Letters in Excess; S.Pfohl - Body in Ruins; C.Richards - Dance of the Scarecrow Brides; R.Anderson - Notes on Contributors