Encounters with the Vulnerable Self
by
Dr Margrit Shildrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as 'monstrous' or 'vulnerable' and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily 'normality' and bodily perfection.
Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and...