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Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility (Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century)
Monica Casper
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Description for Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility (Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century)
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We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than 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 Missing Bodies, 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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814716786
SKU
V9780814716786
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About Monica Casper
Monica Casper (Author) Monica J. Casper is Professor of Gender and Women’s 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. Lisa Jean Moore (Author) Lisa Jean Moore is SUNY Distinguished Professor ... Read more
Reviews for Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility (Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century)
Missing Bodies is a well-written book that asks scholars of rhetoric productive questions not only about discursive constructs that constrain, expose, or advertise the body, but also the methods through which we gather information about the role of the body in discourse.
Journal of Advanced Composition
Overall the book opened my eyes to the experiences of the missing ... Read more
Journal of Advanced Composition
Overall the book opened my eyes to the experiences of the missing ... Read more