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Cultural Studies

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The Culture of the Body

Genealogies of Modernity

By Dalia Judovitz
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments

Power and Knowledge

Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire

By Tamsyn Barton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Offers insight into the relationship between knowledge and power in ancient times--and science and politics in our own

Staging Masculinity

The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World

By Erik Gunderson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"

The Pedagogical Contract

The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World

By Yun Lee Too
Subjects: Classical Studies, Education, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Rethinks the teacher-student relationship from its ancient roots to the present

An Utterly Dark Spot

Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy

By Miran Bozovic
Foreword by Slavoj Zizek
Subjects: Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Two concepts of special interest to contemporary theorists--the gaze and the body--approached in a fresh and fascinating way

Constructions of the Classical Body

Edited by James I. Porter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity

The Body and Physical Difference

Discourses of Disability

Edited by David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality

The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World

By Slavoj Zizek & F.W.J. von Schelling
Translated by Judith Norman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft

The Tremulous Private Body

Essays on Subjection

By Francis Barker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Essay and Interview
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body

Simulacra and Simulation

By Jean Baudrillard
Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Art, Architecture
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
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