Thinking through the skin / edited by Sara Ahmed and Jackie Stacey - London ; New York : Routledge, 2001 - xi, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Transformations : thinking through feminism / edited by: Maureen McNeil .

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge

List of plates. - Notes on contributors. - Series editors' preface. - Acknowledgements. - Introduction : dermographies. - Pt. 1. Skin surfces. 1. Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art / Renata Salecl. 2. Mortification / Steven Connor. 3. Skin memories / Jay Proser. 4. Skin-tight: celebrity, pregnancy and subjectivity / Imogen Tyler. - Pt. II. Skin encounters. 5. Eating skin / Elspeth Probyn. 6. Open wounds /Tina Takemoto. 7. Carved in skin : bearing witness to self-harm / Jane Kilby. 8. Three touches to the skin and one look: satre and Beauvoir on desire and embodiment / Penelope Deutscher. 9. 'You are there, like my skin' : reconfiguring relational economies / Margrit Shildrick. - Pt. III. Skin sites. 10. Inscribing identity: skin as country in the Central Desert / Jennifer Biddle. 11. 'My furladies': the fabric of a nation / Chantal Nadeau. 12. 'That is my Star of David' : skin, abjection and hybridity / Shirley Tate. 13. Robotic skin : the future of touch? / Claudia Castaneda. - Index.

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Body, Human--Social aspects.
Feminist theory.
Skin--Social aspects.

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