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(2013) The seduction of the female body, Dordrecht, Springer.
"The body is "in", in academic as well as in popular culture" (Frank, 1990: 131). For more than three decades studies on this topic have proliferated. From being a subject of marginal academic interest, the body has moved to centre stage in anthropology, sociology, geography, feminism, history, medicine, philosophy, theology, and sports. Since each of these disciplines operates differently, the body has been theorized in widely contrasting ways, leading to a growing fragmentation of the subject matter. But why has the body come to possess such an exceptional popularity across a growing number of disciplines in recent decades? There are various social and cultural changes which have brought the body to the forefront as a fundamental academic issue (Shilling, 2004 [1993]: 1–16, 2005: 1–23). In what follows I will outline some of the most important ones.
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De Clercq, E. (2013). The problem of human vulnerability, in The seduction of the female body, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 76-115.
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