The politics of selfhood : bodies and identities in global capitalism
Richard Harvey Brown, editor
| Year of publication: |
c2003
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| Other Persons: | Brown, Richard Harvey (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press |
| Subject: | Kapitalismus | Capitalism | Liberalismus | Liberalism | Soziologie | Sociology | Individualismus | Individualism | Eigeninteresse | Self-interest |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (xxi, 246 p) 24 cm |
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| Series: | Public worlds ; v. 13 |
| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Contents; Introduction: Theorizing the Body/Self in Global Capitalism; 1 The Illness of Global Capitalism: Female Employees on "Sick Leave" and the Social Meaning of Pain; 2 The Problematics of Democratic Action within Disciplinary Liberalism: The Norplant Case and the Postmodern Body; 3 Genocide or Assimilation: Discourses of Women's Bodies, Health, and Nation in Guatemala; 4 The Ludic Body: Ritual, Desire, and Cultural Identity in the American Super Bowl and the Carnival of Rio; 5 From Body Politics to Body Shops: Power, Subjectivity, and the Body in an Era of Global Capitalism 6 Reinventing the Liberal Self: Talk Shows as Moral Discourse7 Reflections in an Unblinking Eye: Negotiating the Representation of Identities in the Production of a Documentary; 8 From Subject to Citizen to Consumer: Embodiment and the Mediation of Hegemony; 9 Narration and Postmodern Mediations of Western Selfhood; Contributors; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-3755-5 ; 0-8166-3754-7 ; 978-0-8166-3754-6 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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