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Body/Politics: Studies in Reproduction, Production, and (Re)Construction - Hardcover

Shevory, Thomas C.

 
9780275967406: Body/Politics: Studies in Reproduction, Production, and (Re)Construction
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0275967409 ISBN 13: 9780275967406
Verlag: Praeger, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Negotiating the terrain between techno-optimism and eco-pessimism, this work establishes the political connections between technologies of the body, property, and the environment. Specific technologies of the body, such as surrogacy and in vitro fertilization, are examined in relation to their political and legal constructions. Next, Shevory analyzes private property as an evolving historical concept that implicates environmental and biological transformations with particular attention given to biotechnology cases. He then considers the body's appearance and its alterations through plastic surgery, dieting, or piercing as political constructions.

A theoretical overview specifies technoprogressivist (liberal) and technophobic traditions, especially as they have evolved in the United States during the second half of the 20th-century. Drawing upon critical and feminist theories, Shevory specifies a body politics that negotiates the terrain between these two traditions. Body technologies and markets, he argues, interact to consolidate and reinforce dominant systems of power, while at the same time resisting and sometimes subverting them. Technology is often a factor in the fragmentation of evolving political ideological discourses on the left and right; however, the resulting instabilities create the potential for both the expansion of global capital and its subversion via democratic interventions.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

THOMAS C. SHEVORY is Assistant Professor of Politics at Ithaca College. He has contributed articles to The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and Political Mythology and Popular Culture (Greenwood Press, 1987).

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Verlag
Praeger
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0275967409
ISBN 13 
9780275967406
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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