These essays bring together disciplinary understandings of what it is to be the bodies we are.

Analyzes the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.

This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body.

This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body.

In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on the place and treatment of the human body in the Western textual tradition.

In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on the place and treatment of the human body in the Western textual tradition.

Illustrates changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.

This book presents in detail the account by Hadewijch of this supreme and most satisfying experience.

Contemporary theory across a wide range of disciplines denaturalizes the body and reveals it to be a social construction.

Analyzes the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.