The politics of selfhood : bodies and identities in global capitalism / Richard Harvey Brown, editor.
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Minneapolis :
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| Series: | Public worlds ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Theorizing the Body/Self in Global Capitalism / Richard Harvey Brown
- 1. The Illness of Global Capitalism: Female Employees on "Sick Leave" and the Social Meaning of Pain / Margaret J. Tally
- 2. The Problematics of Democratic Action within Disciplinary Liberalism: The Norplant Case and the Postmodern Body / Philip W. Jenks
- 3. Genocide or Assimilation: Discourses of Women's Bodies, Health, and Nation in Guatemala / Antonella Fabri
- 4. The Ludic Body: Ritual, Desire, and Cultural Identity in the American Super Bowl and the Carnival of Rio / Lauren Langman
- 5. From Body Politics to Body Shops: Power, Subjectivity, and the Body in an Era of Global Capitalism / Timothy W. Luke
- 6. Reinventing the Liberal Self: Talk Shows as Moral Discourse / Eva Illouz
- 7. Reflections in an Unblinking Eye: Negotiating the Representation of Identities in the Production of a Documentary / Timothy McGettigan
- 8. From Subject to Citizen to Consumer: Embodiment and the Mediation of Hegemony / Lauren Langman
- 9. Narration and Postmodern Mediations of Western Selfhood / Richard Harvey Brown.
