Embodying the Monster

Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
Cover of the book Embodying the Monster by Dr Margrit Shildrick, SAGE Publications
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Author: Dr Margrit Shildrick ISBN: 9781446236352
Publisher: SAGE Publications Publication: November 1, 2001
Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd Language: English
Author: Dr Margrit Shildrick
ISBN: 9781446236352
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication: November 1, 2001
Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd
Language: English

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 historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body.

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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 historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body.

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