Embodying the Monster Encounters with the Vulnerable Self 1st Edition by Margrit Shildrick 1412933463 9781412933469

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ISBN 10: 1412933463 

ISBN 13: 9781412933469

Author: Margrit Shildrick

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.

Table of contents:

1. Monsters, Marvels and Meanings

2. Monstering the (M)Other

3. The Self’s Clean and Proper Body

4. Contagious Encounters and the Ethics of Risk

5. Levinas and Vulnerable Becoming

6. The Relational Economy of Touch

7. Welcoming the Monstrous Arrivant

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