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Missing Bodies
eBook - The Politics of Visibility, Biopolitics
ISBN/EAN: 9780814717158
Umbreit-Nr.: 2120396
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S.
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Erschienen am 01.07.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
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Format: EPUB
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- Zusatztext
- <p>We know more about the physical bodyhow it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposesthan ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In<b>Missing Bodies</b>, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical tourism, and war. This new politicsof visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodiesLance Armstrong, Jessica Lynchand to the near invisibility of othersdead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and "natural" disasters.<br><b>Missing Bodies</b> presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically,obscures or erases them. It poses difficult, even startling questions: Why did it take so long for the United States media to begin telling stories about the "falling bodies" of 9/11? Why has the United States government refused to allow photographs or filming of flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of soldiers who are dying in Iraq? Why are the bodies of girls and women so relentlessly sexualized? By examining the cultural politics at work in such disappearances and inclusions of the physical body the authors show how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Monica Casper (Author)</b><br><b>Monica J. Casper</b> is Professor of Gender and Womens Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the School of Sociology and the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona. Her publications include Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility.<br><br><b>Lisa Jean Moore (Author)</b><br><b>Lisa Jean Moore</b> is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of<i>Sperm Counts: Overcome by Mans Most Precious Fluid, Catch& Release: The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab, Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification and the Will to Change Nature</i> as well as the co-author of<i>Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility</i> and<i>Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee</i>. She is also co-editor of<i>The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings.</i><br><br>