Places Through the Body

<p>This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies. <br> Extensive introductory and concluding sections guide students through the key debates and themes. <em>Places Through the Body</em> draws on a wide range of contemporary examples and creative ideas to address such topics as:<br> * How racist ideologies are embedded in modern architechtural discourse and practice <br> * How urban spaces make bodies disabled<br> * How the seemingly virtual worlds of knowledge and technology are embodied <br> * How gyms enable women body builders to make new kinds of bodies <br> * How male bodies are placed onto the silver screen <br> * New kinds of femininity<br> Here geographers architects anthropologists artists film theorists theorists of cultural studies and psycho-analysis work alongside each other to make clear connections between bodies and places.</p>