{"product_id":"bodies-in-the-making-transgressions-and-transformations-9780971254633","title":"Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the twenty-first century  the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological  medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing  piercing  self-cutting  cosmetic and transsexual surgery  prosthetics  organ transplants and life extension technologies.  Establishing links among these varied practices  the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind  to agency and to subjectivity.  Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory  they are frequently understood to be socially determined  economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly  exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45655909793845,"sku":"ByrdShop_097125463X","price":247.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780971254633.jpg?v=1781943370","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bodies-in-the-making-transgressions-and-transformations-9780971254633","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}