Refiguring The Body

Author : Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438463162
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refiguring the Body written by Barbara A. Holdrege and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how embodiment is conceived and experienced in South Asian religions. Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engage prevailing theories of the body in the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social theory, and feminist and gender studies. At the same time, they recognize the limitations of applying Western theoretical models as the default epistemological framework for understanding notions of embodiment that derive from non-Western cultures. Divided into three sections, this collection of essays explores material bodies, embodied selves, and perfected forms of embodiment; divine bodies and devotional bodies; and gendered logics defining male and female bodies. The contributors seek to establish theory parity in scholarly investigations and to re-figure body theories by taking seriously the contributions of South Asian discourses to theorizing the body. Barbara A. Holdrege is Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the South Asian Studies Committee at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include Bhakti and Embodiment: Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Kṛṣṇạ Bhakti and Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture, also published by SUNY Press. Karen Pechilis is NEH Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Comparative Religion Department at Drew University. Her books include Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India and The Embodiment of Bhakti.

Author : Elizabeth Grosz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208620
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volatile Bodies written by Elizabeth Grosz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural 'origin' outside culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is subject to the endless rewriting and inscription that constitute all sign systems. Grosz demonstrates that the theories of, among others, Freud and Lacan theorize a male body. She then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women--menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause--to lay the groundwork for new theories of sexed corporeality."--Back cover.

Author : Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438463154
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refiguring the Body written by Barbara A. Holdrege and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how embodiment is conceived and experienced in South Asian religions. Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engage prevailing theories of the body in the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social theory, and feminist and gender studies. At the same time, they recognize the limitations of applying Western theoretical models as the default epistemological framework for understanding notions of embodiment that derive from non-Western cultures. Divided into three sections, this collection of essays explores material bodies, embodied selves, and perfected forms of embodiment; divine bodies and devotional bodies; and gendered logics defining male and female bodies. The contributors seek to establish theory parity in scholarly investigations and to re-figure body theories by taking seriously the contributions of South Asian discourses to theorizing the body.

Author : Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401005702
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refiguring the Archive written by Carolyn Hamilton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.

Author : Gail Weiss
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253219892
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refiguring the Ordinary written by Gail Weiss and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How mundane experience plays a striking role in daily existence

Author : Mariam Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100014318X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body written by Mariam Fraser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and social (dis)order bodies and identities bodily norms bodies in health and dis-ease bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin Scheper-Huges, Haraway and Gilroy, and a series of introductions summarizing each section, this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.

Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487474
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking the Limits of the Body written by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.

Author : Evelyn Fox Keller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231102056
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refiguring Life written by Evelyn Fox Keller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence. Keller continues with an exploration of the border traffic between biology and physics, focusing on the question of life and the law of increasing entropy. In a final section she traces the impact of new metaphors, born of the computer revolution, on the course of biological research. Keller shows how these metaphors began as objects of contestation between competing visions of the life sciences, how they came to be recast and appropriated by already established research agendas, and how in the process they ultimately came to subvert those same agendas. Refiguring Life explains how the metaphors and machinery of research are not merely the products of scientific discovery but actually work together to map out the territory along which new metaphors and machines can be constructed. Through their dynamic interaction, Keller points out, they define the realm of the possible in science. Drawing on a remarkable spectrum of theoretical work ranging from Schroedinger to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Refiguring Life fuses issues already prominent in the humanities and social sciences with those in the physical and natural sciences, transgressing disciplinary boundaries to offer a broad view of the natural sciences as a whole. Moving gracefully from genetics to embryology, from physics to biology, from cyberscience to molecular biology, Evelyn Fox Keller demonstrates that scientific inquiry cannot pretend to stand apart from the issues and concerns of the larger society in which it exists.

Author : Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791472224
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In-Between Bodies written by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connects theories of sexual difference to race and queer theories through a focus on “in-between” bodies.

Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000257959
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions written by Diana Dimitrova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in religious and cultural contexts, as well as the processes of interpreting notions of the body in religious and literary texts. Utilising an interdisciplinary perspective by means of textual study and ideological analysis, anthropological analysis, and phenomenological analysis, the book explores both insider- and outsider perspectives and issues related to the body from the 2nd century CE up to the present-day. Chapters assess various aspects of the body including processes of embodiment and questions of mythologizing the divine body and othering the human body, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. The book analyses notions of mythologizing and "othering" of the body as a powerful ideological discourse, which empowers or marginalizes at all levels of the human condition. Offering a deep insight into the study of religion and issues of the body in South Asian literature, religion and culture, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, South Asian religions, South Asian literatures, cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature.