Skin
On the Cultural Border Between Self and World
Only skin deep, getting under one's skin, the naked truth: metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations -- tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more -- proliferate in Western culture. Yet outside dermatology textbooks, the topic of skin has been largely ignored.This important cultural study shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century to the present. Claudia Benthien argues that despite medicine's having penetrated the bodily surface and exposed the interior of the body as never before, skin, paradoxically, has become a more and more unyielding s…
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Weitere Autoren: Dunlap, Thomas (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-12503-1
- EAN: 9780231125031
- Produktnummer: 8729620
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.6 cm 428 g
- Abbildungen: 41 illus.
- Gewicht: 428
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Claudia Benthien. Translated by Thomas Dunlap
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