Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds by Castañeda, Claudia
Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds by Castañeda, Claudia

Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations,...
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Author: Claudia Castañeda
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Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds by Castañeda, Claudia

Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds

$531.79
Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds by Castañeda, Claudia

Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds

$531.79
Author: Claudia Castañeda
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Casta eda shows how this malleability is itself generated--how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and science and technology studies, this book provides a remarkable map of the child's meaning and movement across transnational circuits of exchange.
Casta eda investigates the construction of the child as both a natural and cultural body, the character of its embodiment, and its imaginative appeal in various settings. The sites through which she tracks the bodily production and deployment of the child include nineteenth-century developmental science; cognitive neuroscience in the late twentieth century; international adoption; rumors and media coverage of child-organ stealing; and poststructuralist theory. Her work reveals the extent to which the child's cultural significance and value lie in its status as a body whose incompleteness makes it "available" for such varied uses. Figurations establishes the child as a key figure for understanding and rethinking the politics of nature, culture, bodies, and subjects in changing "global" worlds.

Author: Claudia Castañeda
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 11/29/2002
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.40h x 5.96w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780822329695

About the Author

Claudia Castañeda is Lecturer at the Institute for Women's Studies at Lancaster University in England.




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