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Figurations
Child, Bodies, Worlds
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Claudia Castañeda
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Edited by:
Inderpal Grewal
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English
Published/Copyright:
2002
About this book
An interdisciplinary examination of debates surrounding the figure of the child in transnational politics and culture.
Author / Editor information
Claudia Castañeda is Lecturer at the Institute for Women’s Studies at Lancaster University in England.
Reviews
“Claudia Castañeda understands the power of figures not just to contain, but to shape, worlds. Her analysis of the potent figures of development, childhood, and the always transforming bodies of children themselves will not soon fade from my soul. Her book is about how ‘the child’ is made relentlessly available for cultural and political projects. The material and semiotic force of the figure ties times and places together into translocal knots that are at the heart of debates about globalization and development.”—Donna J. Haraway, author of Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience
“So much literature in the cultural study of science and medicine has been devoted to the body, but what is a child body? Claudia Castañeda broaches this important question, presenting new and compelling ways of understanding constructions of the child in colonial and neocolonial culture, theory, and history. Figurations is an astute reading of the child figure as it is informed by medical and scientific discourses. Especially significant is Castañeda’s focus on the transnational dynamics that have shaped postwar medical and humanitarian discourses on the child. ”—Lisa Cartwright, author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture
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eBook published on:
November 29, 2002
eBook ISBN:
9780822383895
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216
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6 illus.
