Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility Contributor(s): Casper, Monica (Author), Moore, Lisa Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814716776 ISBN-13: 9780814716779 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 306.461 |
LCCN: 2009000609 |
Series: Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.8" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 240 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: We know more about the physical body--how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes--than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical tourism, and war. This new politicsof visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies--Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch--and to the near invisibility of others--dead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and natural disasters. |
Contributor Bio(s): Casper, Monica J.: - Monica J. Casper is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the School of Sociology and the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona. Her publications include Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility.Moore, Lisa Jean: - Lisa Jean Moore is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is author of Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid and co-author of Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility and Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee. She is also co-editor of the collection The Body Reader and, with Monica Casper, oversees the series Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-First Century for NYU Press. |