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Transforming Bodies

Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture
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At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.

Author Biography:

Heike Steinhoff is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her main areas of research are gender studies, theories and representations of the body, and sexuality in American culture and cultural theory. She is the author of Queer Buccaneers: (De)Constructing Boundaries in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Film Series.
Release date NZ
June 9th, 2015
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Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 267 p.
Pages
267
Dimensions
140x216x18
ISBN-13
9781137493781
Product ID
23054714

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