Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography /

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With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography's involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hladki, Janice (Editor), Brophy, Sarah (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Visual communication > Social aspects.
Visual communication > Political aspects.
Human body in popular culture.
Human body in mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Corps humain dans la culture populaire.
Corps humain dans les medias.
Autobiographie > Aspect social.
Autobiographie > Aspect politique.
Communication visuelle > Aspect social.
Communication visuelle > Aspect politique.
Autobiography > Social aspects.
Autobiography > Political aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Visual autobiography in the frame : critical embodiment and cultural pedagogy / Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki
  • Part 1. Proliferating monstrosity. Quickening paternity : cyberspace, surveillance, and the performance of male pregnancy / Sayantani Dasgupta
  • "Virtual" autobiography? Anorexia, Obsession, and Calvin Klein / Mebbie Bell
  • Big Judy : fatness, shame, and the hybrid autobiography / Allyson Mitchell
  • Part 2. Rupture and recognition : body re-formations. Sex traitors : autoethnography by straight men / Richard Fung
  • Looks can be deceiving : exploring transsexual body alchemy through a neoliberal lens / Dan Irving
  • Visceral (auto)biographies : plastic surgery and gender in reality TV / Simon Strick
  • Part 3. Interior lives : conditions of persistence and survival. My life as a museum, or, performing indigenous epistemologies / Peter Morin
  • Gut reactions : Mona Hatoum's Corps etranger / Kim Sawchuk
  • "Please don't let me be like this!" Un-wounding photographic representations by persons with intellectual disability / Ann Fudge Schormans and Adrienne Chambon
  • "Why should our bodies end at the skin?" Cancer pathography, comics, and embodiment / Laura McGavin
  • Part 4. Spectatorship and historical memory : the ethics of critical embodiment. Witnessing genocide and the challenges of ethical spectatorship / Wendy Kozol
  • Digital melancholia : archived bodies in Carmin Karasic's With liberty and justice for all / Sheila Petty
  • Connective tissue : summoning the spectator to visual autobiography / Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki.

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