Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz
Winner, Gleebooks Prize for Cultural and Literary Criticism, NSW Premier's Awards, 1995
Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivitiy, psychological depth and interiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses, transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of the body (Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Schilder, Nietzsche, Foucault, Lingis and Deleuze) who, while freeing the body from its subordination to the mind, are nonetheless unable to accomodate the specificities of women's bodies.
Volatile Bodies explores various dissonances in thinking the relation between mind and body. It investigates issues that resist reduction to these binary terms - psychosis, hypochondria, neurological disturbances, perversions and sexual deviation - and most particularly the enigmatic status of body fluids, and the female body.
Paperback | 268 pages
152 x 229 x 17.02mm | 498g
03 Jul 1994
Edition: 1
Taylor & Francis
Allen & Unwin
Australia
English
1863734155
9781863734158
Condition: Like New
A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. Very minimal wear and tear.