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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
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ISBN : 9781422325957
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Second Skins
Author : Jay Prosser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1998-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231533802
Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies. In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual bodies. Sex change is a plot--and thus appropriately transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. In reading the transssexual plot through transsexuals' own recounting, Prosser not only gives us a new and more accurate rendition of transsexuality. His book suggests transsexuality, with its extraordinary conjunctions of body and narrative, as an identity story that transitions across the body/language divide that currently stalls poststucturalist thought. The form and approach of Second Skins works to cross other important and parallel divides. In addition to analyzing transsexual textual accounts, the book includes some 30 photographic portraits of transsexuals-- poignant attempts by transsexuals to present themselves unmediated to the world except by the camera. And the author does not shy from exposure himself. Interjecting the personal into his theoretical discussion and close textual work throughout the book, Prosser reads and writes his own body, his purpose in that stylistic crossing to stake out transsexuality--and hence this very book--as his own body's narrative.
Second Skins
Author : Jay Prosser
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN :
This book examines the power of autobiographical narrative in interpreting transsexuality. Focusing on the union of body and narrative, the author conveys how transsexuality has been moulded by autobiographical acts.
Second Skin
Author : Anne Anlin Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Arts and society
ISBN : 0197748384
"What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American Modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a Primitivist given, Cheng argues that Baker's skin was central to debates about and desire for "pure surface" that crystalized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Taking the reader across the Atlantic - through real stages and imagined houses; banana plantations and ocean lines; metallic bodies and radiant cities-this study tracks the ardent and protean conversa-tion between the making of a Modernist style and the staging of a new black visuality. In this account, Baker and the Modernists known to have adored and objectified her in fact share a common dream: the fantasy of remaking and wearing the skin of the other"--
Body Parts
Author : Christopher E. Forth
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739109335
In many forms of discourse, specific parts of the human anatomy may signify the whole body/person. In this volume, scholars from a variety of historical and cultural studies disciplines examine scientific, medical, popular, and literary texts, paying special attention to the different strategies employed in order to establish authority over the body through the management of a single part. By considering body parts that are usually ignored by scholars, these essays render the idea of a single, coherent body untenable by demonstrating that the body is not a transhistorical entity, but rather, deeply fragmented and fundamentally situated in a number of different contexts.
Fashion Forward
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848880014
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author : United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher :
Page : 1404 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Patents
ISBN :
A Second Skin
Author : Patricia McCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
ISBN :
The Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment
Author : Nick V. Baker
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1849770220
The refurbishment of existing buildings is a neglected subject within sustainable architecture; attention is usually focused on new buildings. Old buildings can use large amounts of energy and provide poor internal conditions for occupants. They may have high heating demand, poor lighting, poor ventilation, solar penetration and glare, and poor control of heating and cooling. Demolition is an option but the alternative of refurbishment is starting to be seen as more sustainable in terms of architectural value, materials use, neighborhood disruption and waste disposal. Building new is more carbon intensive and carries many wider environmental impacts. In addition, the potential impact of low energy refurbishment is much greater than that for new build since there are many more existing buildings than will be built in the next 10 - 20 years, the period over which many CO2 emission targets apply.
Maritime Technology and Engineering
Author : Carlos Guedes Soares
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1315731592
Maritime Technology and Engineering includes the papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering (MARTECH 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 October 2014). The contributions reflect the internationalization of the maritime sector, and cover a wide range of topics: Ports; Maritime transportation; Inland navigat