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Article: Bodies and pleasures: early modern interrogations.
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- The Romanic Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, in their introduction to Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, note the prevalence of academic criticism's recent focus on the body as a "subject" of culture and of embodiedness as a paradigm of subjectivity. They trace an interesting recent history of this focus on the body (in culture, in history) as related, on the one hand, to feminist inquiry and politics, with its focus on gender and sexual difference as important operative distinctions in culture that carry political implications; and, on the other, to recent political and social developments: "the current containment and control of bodies by technologies and ...
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