Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge

by Monica J Casper, Paisley Currah

Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment and asserts that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection’s thirteen original essays grapple with the place of bodies in a range of twenty-first century knowledge practices, including trauma, surveillance, aging, fat, food, feminist technoscience, death, disability, biopolitics, and race, among others. 

238 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2011

About the author

Monica J. Casper, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University. Her latest book, BABYLOST: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2022. Casper is founding co-editor of the NYU Press book series “Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century” and the University of Arizona book series “The Feminist Wire Books.” She is also a creative writer.