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Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

Shildrick, Margrit

Paperback

Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0761970142
ISBN13: 9780761970149
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: Mar 28 2002
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.78 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
′(A) consistently interesting and provocative work, which offers a great deal in seven chapters. It marks an innovative interdisciplinary approach to questions of embodiment and subjectivity′ - Disability and Society

′This is an elegantly written book which has, as its main aim, to rethink the idea of difference in the western imaginary through a consideration of two themes: monsters and how these have come to define, but potentially to deconstruct, normality; and the whole idea of vulnerability and the vulnerable and the extent to which such a state is one that all of us are constantly in danger of entering ... The theoretical and philosophical content - Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Irrigaray, Butler, Levinas, and Haraway in particular - together with the range of empirical examples used to illustrate the arguments, make the book an ideal one for third level undergraduates and for post-graduates, particularly those studying the sociology of embodiment, feminist theory, critical theory and cultural studies. Shildrick accomplishes the task of making difficult ideas comprehensible without reducing them to the simplistic′ - Sociology

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