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Article: The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity.(Book Review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity. By DALIA JUDOVITZ. (The Body in Theory) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2001. 235 pp. $59.50; 37 [pounds sterling] (pbk $19.95; 12.50 [pounds sterling]). ISBN: 0-472-09742-3 (pbk 0-472-06742-7).
This book challenges us to rethink notions of embodiment, identity, and modernity in the light of postmodern and poststructuralist theory. Over thirty years such theory has enabled us to regard the body as a material reality invested with social meanings by its modes of representation. Yet postmodern debates have reacted against two movements associated with modernity: the late-nineteenth- and ...