Thinking the Limits of the Body (Ebook) von Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Acknowledgments


Introduction: Bodies at the Limit
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss


PART I: HORIZONS


1. Histories of the Present and Future: Feminism, Power, Bodies
Elizabeth Grosz


2. The Body as a Narrative Horizon
Gail Weiss


PART II: DERMAL BOUNDARIES


3. Cutups in Beauty School
Linda S. Kauffman


4. Deep Skin
William A. Cohen


PART III: RACIAL EDGES


5. Ontological Crisis and Double Narration in African American Fiction: Reconstructing Our Nig
Laura Doyle


6. Parallaxes: Cannibalism and Self-Embodiment; or, The Calvinist Reading of Tupi A-Theology
Sara Castro-Klar´en

PART IV: DIS-ABLING ALLIANCES


7. Making Freaks: Visual Rhetorics and the Spectacle of Julia Pastrana
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson


8. Critical Investments: AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and Queer/Disability Studies
Robert McRuer


PART V: LIMINALITIES


9. The Inhuman Circuit
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen


10. Mourning the Autonomous Body
Debra B. Bergoffen


About the Contributors


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