Body, The
The Touch of the Present
Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.
Meaning and Embodiment
Examines Hegel's insights regarding the complexity and significance of embodiment in human life, identity, and experience.
Plato and the Body
Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.
Bodies in China
Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.
Out for Blood
Frames menstruation as a site of resistance, defiance, and shamelessness, showcasing the work of those who fight back against shame and silence.
It Hurts Down There
Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.
The Sense of Space
A phenomenological account of spatial perception in relation to the lived body.
Intertwinings
Connects Merleau-Ponty’s thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today.
Anxious Anatomy
Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.
The Body in Medical Culture
Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.
The Bodily Dimension in Thinking
An ontology of bodily being featuring Plato, Nietzsche, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault.
Nietzsche and Embodiment
Examines the significance of Nietzsche’s writings for contemporary debates about embodiment.
Amending the Abject Body
Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.
Scenes of the Apple
Examines the rich and multiple meanings of food in women's writing.
Thinking the Limits of the Body
Shows the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in discussions of the body.
The Wounded Body
Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.
Transgressive Corporeality
This book examines embodiment and poststructuralism as they pertain to theological method.
Literary Anatomies
This book shows how imaginative literature brings women's medical experiences back to lived moments in living bodies, where readers can, perhaps, better understand what it feels like to be someone else. ...
People of the Body
By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies — for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation ...