The Politics of Selfhood Bodies and Identities in Global Capitalism Richard Harvey Brown, editor		$22.50 paper ISBN: 0-8166-3755-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3755-3 $67.50 cloth ISBN: 0-8166-3754-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3754-6
Looks at the ways social change is expressed through debates over identities and bodies. In bodies and selves, we can see politics, economics, and culture play out, and the tensions and crises of society made visible. The women’s movement, lobbies for the elderly, pro-choice and pro-life movements, AIDS research and education, pedophilia and repressed memory, global sports spectacles, organ donor networks, campaigns for safe sex, chastity, or preventive medicine—all are aspects of the contemporary politics of bodies and identities touched on in this book. Three broad themes run through the collection: how the body is constructed in various ways for different purposes, how the electronic media and its uses shape selves and sensualities and contribute to civic discourse, and how global capitalism acts as a direct force in these processes. By taking a distinctly cross-cultural and comparative approach, this volume explores more fully than ever the political, economic, institutional, and cultural settings of corporeality, identity, and representation. “Highlighting the terra incognita that lies at the intersection of body, self/identity, and globalized capitalism, and in nicely illustrating, comparatively across cultures, the various fragmenting, disempowering ways in which the ‘personal’ is inescapably also ‘political’ within the context of a postmodern world.” —Social and Economic Studies Contributors: Antonella Fabri, Eva Illouz, Philip W. Jenks, Lauren Langman, Timothy W. Luke, Timothy McGettigan, Margaret J. Tally. 288 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2003 Public Worlds Series, volume 13