Intact

Intact - Ediciones

3 ediciones

Intact

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-250-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141992501

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 432

Fecha de publicación: 2023-07-06

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Intact

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-999-9

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141999999

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 759

Fecha de publicación: 2022-02-24

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Intact

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-02-4143-905-0

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241439050

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 432

Fecha de publicación: 2022-02-24

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Intact

Clare Chambers

Primera publicación: 2022-02-24

In this thought-provoking, original work, acclaimed political philosopher Clare Chambers argues that the unmodified body is a key political principle. While defending individuals' right to change their bodies, she argues that the social pressures to modify undermine equality. She shows how the connected ideas of the natural body, the normal body, and the whole body have been used both to disrupt and to maintain social hierarchies - sometimes oppressing, other times liberating. The body becomes a site of political importance: a place where hierarchies of sex, gender, race, disability, age, and class are reinforced. Through a clear-sighted analysis of the power dynamics that structure our society, and with examples ranging widely from bodybuilding to breast implants, deafness to male circumcision, biology to gender identity, Intact stresses that we must break away from the oppressive forces that demand we alter our bodies. Instead, it offers a bold, transformative vision of the human body that is equal without expectation.