From: bd27594-AT-bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 21:25:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Help!!


one suggestion I have, is that if you are thinking about social 
construction of bodies, keep in mind the plurality of bodies, the 
difference between bodies, talking about "the body" is 
problematic...divorces the physical from the particularities of different 
life experiences, differences in ways various bodies are impacted by 
social construction. If you talk about "the body" as if there is only one 
and as if you can say certain specific things about all bodies, you risk 
abstracting something very material and concrete, the WONDERFUL 
FLESHINESS(ES) of animals (human and non-human)... 

On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Ashwin Kumar wrote:

> I am new to the works of Mitchel Foucault and would be most obliged for 
> some directions. I intend to do my MA[HONS] thesis on the social 
> construction of the body in 1996 as part of my Cultural Studies Degree.
> How could I use the work of MF -  in terms of the body? I have read 
> "Docile Bodies" (Rabinow:1984) and "History of SEXUALITY" Vols 
> 1-3(Foucault:1976,1984,1985). Are there any "good' starter books on 
> Foucault's work?
> Regards,
> akumar.
> 
> 
> 

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