The body: a reader

Introduction / Mariam Fraser and Monica Greco

1. Refiguring bodies / Elizabeth Grosz

2. experience of the body and classical psychology / Maurice Merleau-Ponty

3. burden and blessing of mortality / Hans Jonas

4. Ethology : Spinoza and us / Gilles Deleuze

5. Bodies that matter / Judith Butler

6. Techniques of the body / Marcel Mauss

7. two bodies / Mary Douglas

8. Embodied information in face-to-face interaction / Erving Goffman

9. Belief and the body / Pierre Bourdieu

10. grotesque image of the body and its sources / Mikhail Bakhtin

11. Civilization and psychosomatics / Norbert Elias

12. political investment of the body / Michel Foucault

13. Lesbian bodies : tribades, tomboys and tarts / Barbara Creed

14. Thin is the feminist issue / Nicky Diamond

15. Ageing and its embodiment / Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs

16. Divinity : a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

17. Ambivalent femininities / Beverley Skeggs

18. In novel conditions : the cross-dressing psychiatrist / Allucquere Rosanne Stone

19. Endangered/endangering : schematic racism and white paranoia / Judith Butler

20. Orgasm, generation, and the politics of reproductive biology / Thomas Laqueur

21. Measuring heads / Stephen J. Gould

22. body and the archive / Allan Sekula

23. Visualizing the disabled body : the classical nude and the fragmented torso / Lennard J. Davis

24. Bodies, disability and spaces : the social model and disabling spatial organisations / Peter Freund

25. Monstrosity and the monstrous / Georges Canguilhem

26. Complex systems / Emily Martin

27. Portraits of people with AIDS / Douglas Crimp

28. global traffic in human organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

29. self unmade : embodied paranoia / Arthur Frank

30. Hypochondriasis : the ironic disease / Arthur Kleinman

31. Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual / Carlos Novas and Nikolas Rose

32. biopolitics of postmodern bodies : constitutions of self in immune system discourse / Donna J. Haraway

33. pleasure of the interface / Claudia Springer

34. Race ends here / Paul Gilroy

35. Iatrogenesis : the visible human project and the reproduction of life / Catherine Waldby

36. Twice dead : organ transplants and the reinvention of death / Margaret Lock

37. Soft-soaping empire : commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock

38. finest consumer object : the body / Jean Baudrillard

39. commercialization of discipline : keep-fit culture and its values / Roberta Sassatelli

40. united colors of diversity, essential and inessential culture / Celia Lury

41. Enterprising kinship : consumer choice and the new reproductive technologies / Marilyn Strathern

42. 'Clay cunningly compounded' / Peter Brown

43. 'I do not want to look like...' / Orlan on becoming-Orlan

44. Survival as a social construct / Zygmunt Bauman

45. body's problems with illness / Arthur Frank

46. body in pain : the making and unmaking of the world / Elaine Scarry.