Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self

by Margrit Shildrick

Book Overview

′(A) consistently interesting and provocative work, which offers a great deal in seven chapters. It marks an innovative interdisciplinary approach to questions of embodiment and subjectivity′ - Disability and Society

′This is an elegantly written book which has, as its main aim, to rethink the idea of difference in the western imaginary through a consideration of two themes: monsters and how these have come...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761970142
• ISBN13: 9780761970149
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 8.7"