Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0275966755 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism. This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives."-Contemporary Sociology?Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism. This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives."-Contemporary Sociology . This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives.?-Contemporary Sociology.,."Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism
It will also appeal to critics and practitioners in contemporary practices of body modification.. It challenges the ways in which identity and difference are discursively produced, particularly in psychological, criminological, and counter-cultural discourses. These theories are supplanted with this unique approach to notions of subjectivity, textuality, ethics, and pleasure and to the relationships among them.This examination of the role of the body in social, political, and ethical relations will attract scholars from a number of disciplines, including cultural studies, gender studies, philosophy, visual arts, sociology, and English. Drawing on the works of a number of p
NIKKI SULLIVAN is a lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University./e She has published articles on body modification, self-mutilation, and queer theory.
Reading body writing A Customer Theory/postmodernism/post-structuralism often gets written off because of its supposed lack of ethical substance. This assumption has been wearing thin for many years now, and this book contributes considerably to a positive discussion of ethics beyond utilitarian, liberal, and even some communitarian models.Having said that, this book is not a book of normative ethics, o