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Paperback American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique Book

ISBN: 0814706584

ISBN13: 9780814706589

American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique

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Most human bodies have two arms, two legs, hands, feet, a head. Yet the body, as we perceive it, is ultimately a cultural construct defined by the values and meanings each individual, and each culture, ascribes to it. Beyond its corporeal realities, the implications of the body-how we adorn, alter, heal, and please it-are potentially endless, limited only by the manner in which we frame it.
Revealing how the human body has served as as metaphor...

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