Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality

by Gail Weiss

Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everyday existence.

Genres: Philosophy, Feminism, Nonfiction

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 9, 1998

Reviews

[Tia]

A lot of lit review that is helpful to create broad understanding but I wish the bulk of the book was as argumentative as the final chapter and conclusion.

[astrid]

Pretty compelling all in all - thought I would be frustrated by the lit-reviewyness of much of it, but Weiss provides some useful overviews accompanied by insightful critical incursions which permeate her relayings of others' work. Not convinced embodied ethics/bodily imperatives serve as a particularly neat or fully developed conclusion in the final chapter, as much as it was good to finally see her argument at the forefront, phenomenology merging with ethics (Bring Back The Body!), and moral philosophy and relativism debates unexpectedly coming to the fore. Kind of wish I'd read this during/pre-SAN5 for this reason. Chapters 3 and 4 were also good, and I liked the stuff on abjection in 4 particularly. 5 and 6, as with much written on technology written in the late 90s, are perhaps a little outdated, but still interesting, and I liked Weiss' not overly cynical approach.