Body Images

Gail Weiss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. She is co-editor of Perspectives on Embodiment (forthcoming from Routledge).

"Weiss presents a subtle and thoughtful interrogation ofthe status of the body in our understanding ofsubjectivity and society. This is a book that isintimately attuned to the complexities of race, class,gender and geography and how they are always livedthrough bodily structures and experiences. Perhaps morethan many of the great theorists of the body,Body Imagesmakes us alive to how strongly these structures ofcultural, sexual, racial and social differences areembedded in lived bodies." -- Elizabeth Grosz, author of Volatile Bodies

• Introduction {Introduction}; Chapter 1 Body Image Intercourse; Chapter 2 Splitting the Subject; Chapter 3 Morphological Fantasies; Chapter 4 The Abject Borders of the Body Image; Chapter 5 The Durée of the Techno-Body; Chapter 6 Écart; Chapter 7 Bodily Imperatives; conclusion {Conclusion};