Mutilating The Body

Author : Kim Hewitt
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879727109
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mutilating the Body written by Kim Hewitt and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title concerns the different ways in which people use their bodies for self-expression: tattooing, piercing, self-mutilation, which serve both individual and cultural needs.

Author : Armando R. Favazza
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853005
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies Under Siege written by Armando R. Favazza and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-05-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although instances of deliberate skin-cutting are recorded as far back as the old and New Testaments of the Bible the behavior has generally been regarded as a symptom of various mental disorders. With the publication of Bodies Under Siege, a book described in the New York Times Magazine (July 17, 1997) as "the first to comprehensively explore self-mutilation," Dr. Armando Favazza has pioneered the study of the behavior as significant and meaningful unto itself. Drawing from the latest case studies from clinical psychiatry he broadens our understanding of self-mutilation and body modification and explores their surprising connections to the elemental experiences of healing, religions, salvation, and social balance. Favazza makes sense out of seemingly senseless self-mutilative behaviors by providing both a useful classification and examination of the ways in which the behaviors provide effective but temporary relief from troublesome symptoms such as overwhelming anxiety, racing thoughts, and depersonalization. He offers important new information on the psychology and biology of self-mutilation, the link between self-mutilation and eating disorders, and advances in treatment. An epilogue by Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement, describes his role in influencing a new generation to "experiment with the previously forbidden 'body side' of life" through piercing, blood rituals, scarification, and body sculpting in order to attain a state of grace. The second edition of Bodies Under Siege is the major source of information about self-mutilation, a much misunderstood behavior that is now coming into public awareness.

Author : Eliane Françoise DalMolin
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780472110735
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cutting the Body written by Eliane Françoise DalMolin and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Frances E. Mascia-Lees
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438412177
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment written by Frances E. Mascia-Lees and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary theory across a wide range of disciplines denaturalizes the body and reveals it to be a social construction. Cultural practices which deform, adorn, mutilate, and obliterate the body illustrate that it is an important site for the inscription of culture. The authors draw on cross currents in feminist theory, literary criticism, anthropology, and history to analyze several such cultural practices as examples of the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.

Author : Juliet Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134097239
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights written by Juliet Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting women and little girls from such a cut is not all that it seems. Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh considers how such images come to inform law and the investment of advocates of law in an imagination of this scene. Drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, and accompanying ideas in political theology, Juliet Rogers examines the language, imagery and excitement that accompanies recent initiatives to legislate against what is called 'female genital mutilation'. The author compliments this examination with a consideration of the scene of torture exposed in images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Rogers argues that the modes of fascination and excitement that accompany scenes of torture and female circumcision betray the fantasy of a political condition against which the subject of liberal law is imagined; this is subjectivity in a state of non-mutilation, non-prohibition or, in a psychoanalytic idiom, non-castration. To support the fantasy of this subject, the mutilated subject, the authors suggests, is rendered as flesh cut from the democratic nation state, deserving of only selective human rights, or none at all.

Author : Armando R. Favazza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies Under Siege written by Armando R. Favazza and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Armando R. Favazza
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401118
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies under Siege written by Armando R. Favazza and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third edition, this invaluable work is updated throughout with findings from hundreds of new studies, discussions of new models of self-injury, an assessment of the S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends) program, and the Bill of Rights for People Who Self-harm. Armando Favazza’s pioneering work identified a wide range of forces, many of them cultural and societal, that compel or impel people to mutilate themselves. This new edition examines the explosive growth in the incidence of self-injurious behaviors and body modification practices. Favazza critically assesses new and significant biological, ethnological, social, and psychological findings regarding self-injury; presents current understandings of self-injurious acts from cultural and clinical perspectives; and places self-mutilation in historical and contemporary context.

Author : Craig Thompson Friend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107084202
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the American South written by Craig Thompson Friend and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.

Author : Lori Hope Lefkovitz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791431627
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Textual Bodies written by Lori Hope Lefkovitz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.

Author : Jonas Pomere
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404219878
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frequently Asked Questions About Self Mutilation and Cutting written by Jonas Pomere and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses self-mutilation, describing why some individuals choose to hurt themselves, explaining how body modification and self-mutilation are related, and pointing out where to go for help.