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Bodies, Boundaries and Vulnerabilities

Interrogating Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of Embodiment

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Editors:
  1. Lisa Folkmarson Käll

    1. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Cuts new terrain in feminist theories of the body and embodiment
  • Targets the topic of bodily boundaries in new innovative ways through a focus on the dynamic co-constitution of bodies and boundaries
  • Explores an understanding of vulnerability as an essential aspect of being embodied

Part of the book series: Crossroads of Knowledge (CROKNOW)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Vulnerable Bodies and Embodied Boundaries

    • Lisa Folkmarson Käll
    Pages 1-12

  3. Rural Women’s Bodies and Invisible Hands: Neoliberalism and Population Control in China

    • Lihua Wang, Linda M. Blum
    Pages 13-30

  4. Arrogant Perceptors, World-Travelers, and World-Backpackers: Rethinking María Lugones’ Theoretical Framework Through Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth

    • Jenny Björklund
    Pages 31-46

  5. Embodied Vulnerability in Large-Scale Technical Systems: Vulnerable Dam Bodies, Water Bodies, and Human Bodies

    • May-Britt Öhman
    Pages 47-79

  6. Toxic Skin and Animal Mops: Ticks and Humanimal Vulnerabilities

    • Jacob Bull
    Pages 81-98

  7. Mothering with Neuroscience in a Neoliberal Age: Child Disorders and Embodied Brains

    • Linda M. Blum, Estye R. Fenton
    Pages 99-118

  8. Sexual Arousal, Danger, and Vulnerability

    • Fredrik Palm
    Pages 119-140

  9. The Author’s Body: Almodóvar, Film Theory, and Embodiment

    • Anne Fleche
    Pages 141-152

  10. Performativity and Expression: The Case of David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly

    • Lisa Folkmarson Käll
    Pages 153-174
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About this book

This volume explores the interrelations between bodily boundaries and vulnerabilities. It calls attention to the vulnerability of bodies as an essential aspect of having boundaries and being bound to other bodies. The volume advances an understanding of embodiment as the central aspect of subjectivity, its identity formation and its relations to others and the world. The essence of embodiment is what connects us with others and in equal measure what distinguishes us from others. The collection also addresses the centrality of the body to political and cultural activity, targeting the role and constitution of norms in the regulation of bodies, and the construction of spaces that bodies inhabit, in constructing national and cultural identities. It raises questions of how bodies and boundaries materialize in co-constitutive relation to one another; how bodies are situated and come to embody various bodies and intersections between different categories of identity and systems of value, meaning and knowledge; how the regulation and policing of bodies and the boundaries between them come to constitute bodies as being weak, strong, vulnerable or resilient and as having more or less fixed or fluid boundaries. The chapters in the volume all demonstrate how individual human bodies are formed in relation to each other as they are regulated and distinguished from one another by larger collective bodies of nature, culture, science, nation and state, as well as by other human or non-human animal bodies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lisa Folkmarson Käll

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bodies, Boundaries and Vulnerabilities

  • Book Subtitle: Interrogating Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of Embodiment

  • Editors: Lisa Folkmarson Käll

  • Series Title: Crossroads of Knowledge

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22494-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22493-0Published: 10 November 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37338-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22494-7Published: 30 October 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2197-9634

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9642

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 174

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Gender Studies

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