Talking Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender, and Identity
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-12/270004
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319637778
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- Uniting academics, activists, and practitioners, the first Talking Bodies essay collection (there are now two volumes published, with a third in preparation) presents discussions of embodiment in its diverse manifestations. The ‘Talking Bodies’ philosophy emerged from a series of biennial international conferences organised by Rees and, over a three-year period, she commissioned and edited contributions from a range of writers from around the world. The essays are firmly interdisciplinary and come from writers at different stages in their academic careers, including some working outside the academy. Rees’s own essay in the collection, ‘Varieties of Embodiment and “Corporeal Style”’ maps how, in the years leading up to the first Talking Bodies conference in 2013, philosophers and poets had conceived of the body, demonstrating how corporeality is articulated in phenomenological terms. Rees was the first researcher to situate Christina Crosby’s Body Undone in a wider field of embodiment studies, using Elizabeth Grosz’s work as a way in, and Judith Butler’s notion of ‘corporeal style’ as an anchor to the broader debates she adumbrated around the facticity of the body. ‘Varieties of Embodiment’ presents a unique record of how debates around embodiment have evolved, and opens the field up to the arguments presented by the volume’s other contributors.
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