A great deal of our ideology is hallucinatory. - Christopher Manes, 72
Encultured bodies: links and suggested reading
Some feminist body theory resources.
Representation and the Body: an Interdisciplinary M.A. Programme in Critical Theory at the University of Reading
Dennis Humphrey's extensive bibliography on embodiment.
Jody Golick Cultivating culture
Allucquere Rosanne Stone 1995: The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Allucquere Rosanne Stone 1994 "Will The Real Body Please Stand Up: Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures", in M. Benedikt (ed). Cyberspace MIT
Berman Morris Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
- An attempt to retell human history in the West in terms of embodiment: to write the "hidden history" of somatic experience, from the origins of Christianity to Renaissance mysticism, to the roots of Nazism. (LW)
McWhorter Ladelle 1999 Bodies and pleasures: Foucault and the politics of sexual normalization, Indiana University.
Miller Nancy, Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobriographical Acts. New York:Routledge, 1991.
Gallop Jane, Anecdotal Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
- Taken together, these two books testify to the infiltration of the academic domain of literary theory by personal narrative drawing heavily on bodily experience. (LW)
Schatzki, T., & Natter, W. (1996).(Eds.). The social and political body. London: Guilford Press.
- Politics of aesthetics bibliography
Bakhtin M. (Ed. P. Morris) (1994). The Bakhtin reader: Selected writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev and Voloshinov. London: Edward Arnold.
Bresler L. (Ed.), Knowing bodies, moving minds: Towards embodied teaching and learning . Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Brown R.H. (Ed.), (2003). The politics of selfhood: Bodies and identities in global capitalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Csordas T.J. (Ed.), Embodiment and experience: The existential ground of culture and self . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Duncam P. (2005), 'Visual culture and an aesthetics of embodiment', International Journal of Education through Art 1:1, pp. 9-19. doi: 10.1386/etar.1.1.9/1
Eagleton T. (1990). The ideology of the aesthetic. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Shilling C. (1993). The body and social theory. London: Sage.
Turner B.S. (1984). The body and society: Explorations
in social theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Amanda's culture studies bibliography:
Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body. Duke Univ. Press, 1996.
Bordo, Susan. My Father's Body and Other Unexplored Regions of Masculinity. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, forthcoming.
Bordo, Susan. Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images From Plato to O.J. University of California Press, 1997.
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. University of California Press, 1993.
Bordo, Susan and Alison Jaggar, ed. Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Browne, Connors, and Stern, ed. With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women's Anthology. Cleis Press, 1985.
Epstein Julia 1995 Altered conditions: disease, medicine, and storytelling Routledge
Davis, Kathy. Remaking the Female Body. 1995.
Davis, Kathy, ed. Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body. Sage Publications, 1997.
Camper, Carol, ed. Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women. Sister Vision Press, 1994.
Featherston, Elena, ed. Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture, and Identity.
Grogan, Sarah. Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children. NY: Routledge, 1999.
Grosz, Elizabeth. Space, Time and Perversion. Essays on the Politics of Bodies. Routledge, New York; and Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1995.
Grosz, Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Indiana Univ. Press, 1994.
Heywood, Leslie. Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture. California, 1996.
Kirby, Vicki. Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal. Routledge, 1997.
Latteier, Carolyn. Breasts: The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession. Haworth Press, 1998.
Nast, Heidi J. and Steve Pile, ed. Places Through the Body. Routledge, 1998.
Schor, Naomi and Elizabeth Weed, ed. Love, Anger, and the Body. (differences Vol. 9, no. 1) Indiana University Press.
Thone, Ruth Raymond. Fat -- A Fate Worse Than Death? Women, Weight and Appearance. Haworth Press, 1997.
Ussher, Jane, ed. Body Talk: The Material and Discursive Regulation of Sexuality, Madness and Reproduction. NY: Routledge, 1997.
Walker, Michelle Boulous. Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading Silence. Routledge, 1998.
Weiss, Gail. Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality. Routledge, 1999.
Weiss, Gail and Honi Fern Haber, ed. Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersection of Nature and Culture. Routledge, 1999.
Weitz, Rose, ed. The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance and Behavior. Oxford, 1998.
Wilson and Laennec, ed. Bodily Discursions: Gender, Representations, Technologies.
- Most of this bibliography thanks to student Amanda St John