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Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality

Name: Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality
Author: Gail Weiss
ISBN: 9780415918039

by Gail Weiss

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Overview

This book examines the many forces that contribute to the ongoing construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of body images. Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everydat existence.

Synopsis

Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everyday existence.