American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique

by Tim Armstrong

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814706584

ISBN13:9780814706589

Release Date:December 1996

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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