Common Bodies
Everyday Practice, Gender and Religion
Maaike de Haardt, Anne-Marie Korte (eds.)
The gendered body in its common, everyday activities and references is
the central focus of this book. Recognizing the highly abstract and
often "dixembodied" character of contemporary discussions on "the body"
in relation to gender, subjectivity and discourse, the authors of this
anthology start their inquiries at a more mundane level by studying
"common bodies": human bodies and bodily practices in daily situations
of (domestic) work and care, of sex, love and violence, and of prayer
and ritual. From this angle of "corporeal agency" they discuss the
meaning of religion, religiosity, transcendence and/or Divinity.
Band 6, 2002, 179 Seiten,
ISBN 3-8258-5578-3