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Condition: COME NUOVO. Basingstoke-New York, Palgrave Macmillan cm.15,5x23,5, pp.234, brossura, cop.fig.a col. Buon esempl. What do we mean when we talk about the body? This reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of the body throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological given, but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.…