Bodies, boundaries and vulnerabilities : interrogating social, cultural and political aspects of embodiment /: interrogating social, cultural and political aspects of embodiment. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lisa Folkmarson Käll, editor.
• Editors: Käll, Lisa Folkmarson
• Contents: Vulnerable Bodies and Embodied Boundaries; References; Rural Women's Bodies and Invisible Hands: Neoliberalism and Population Control in China; Introduction; Methodology; Reframing the Past to Move to the Future: Remaking Population Workers' Mentality and Practices; Village Women and New Governmentality: Normalizing Bodies and Changing Mentality; Conclusion; References; Arrogant Perceptors, World-Travelers, and World-Backpackers: Rethinking María Lugones' Theoretical Framework Through Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth; Introduction Spatial and Material Aspects of Arrogant Perception and Agonistic Playfulness Loving Perception, World-Travelling, and Playfulness in a Globalized World; The Failed World-Traveller: Leo as World-Backpacker; Conclusion; References; Embodied Vulnerability in Large-Scale Technical Systems: Vulnerable Dam Bodies, Water Bodies, and Human Bodies; Prologue; Erik Olsson Rim, the State Power Company, and the Julevädno at Bårjås; The Giant/Giantess Julevädno and Me; Julevädno Dancing with the Humans; Disillusion of River Control Human Bodies, Dam Bodies and Water Bodies: A Long-Time Relationship of Vulnerability Dam Bodies as Vulnerable Unprotected Bodies Depending on Friendly Human Bodies; Water Bodies and Dam Bodies: A Relationship of Watery Invasions; Pleading with the Julevädno to Remain Kind and Gentle; References; Toxic Skin and Animal Mops: Ticks and Humanimal Vulnerabilities; Introduction; Threats and Species Boundaries; Parasitic Definitions; The Frontline of Defence: Creating Toxic Skin and Animal Mops; Toxic Skin; Animal Mops; Toxicity, Boundaries and 'Good Life'; Parasitic Topologies Conclusions: Knotting Species ParasiticallyReferences; Mothering with Neuroscience in a Neoliberal Age: Child Disorders and Embodied Brains; Introduction: The Medicalization of Childhood Meets the Neoliberal Brain; Mothers' Narratives of "Brain Blame"; Advice Literature: Know Your Child's Brain!; Vulnerable Children in Precarious Economic Times, from Brain to Social Disorder; In Closing: States Adopt the New Brain Science?; Appendix; References; Sexual Arousal, Danger, and Vulnerability; Introduction: Social Theory and the Naturalization of Arousal; Arousal, Subjectivity, and Danger Sexual Arousal, Enjoyment of Vulnerability, and Loss of Control Arousal as a Triumph Over Vulnerability; Arousal as Ecstatic Suffering and Recognition of Powerlessness; Conclusion: Sexual Arousal as Discursive Accomplishment; References; The Author's Body: Almodóvar, Film Theory, and Embodiment; Introduction; Film Theory: Auteur and the Film Corpus; Film Theory: Embodiment and the Enactment of Film; Pedro Almodóvar: Auteur, Embodiment, and Film as a Performative; References; Performativity and Expression: The Case of David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly; Introduction
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.4; Social sciences; Human body -- Social aspects; Body image; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Body image; Human body -- Social aspects; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Psychology of gender; Sociology; Developmental psychology; Gender studies, gender groups; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319224947; 3319224948
• Related ISBNs: 9783319224930; 331922493X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 4, 2015)
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