The Body
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Stand up Straight!: A History of Posture
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. 429 pages, black and white illustrations. Maroon papered boards, grey lettering, illustrated jacket.
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Confessing Excess: Women and the Politics of Body Reduction
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. x, 200 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Wrappers shelfworn and with some creasing. Minor foxing. Good Condition. -
Re-Forming the Body: Religion, Community and Modernity
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 16cm. [vi], 234 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor soiling to edges. Highlighting to two chapters. Previous owner’s name. Bookseller’s price sticker. Good Condition. -
The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 15.5cm. vi, 170 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor handling wear. Previous owner’s name. Very Good Condition. -
TBW Books Annual Series No. 7: Business of Fashion / Study / The Nipple / Body Index (4 Volumes)
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First Edition.
28cm x 22cm. [48], [48], [48], [48] pages, illustrations, some colour. Pictorial papered boards.
“TBW Books’ Annual Series returns for the seventh set. This year, four artists were invited to approach the concept of the human form. Implementing stylistically distinct approaches, each book works to challenge the artist’s own practice, making room for discovery within not only their own oeuvre but within the language of photography itself. While each book is thought of as a stand-alone title, an undeniable dialogue is shared between all four when presented together, allowing viewers to experience the collection as a singular photographic meditation. Book 1: Paul Kooiker: Business of Fashion; Book 2: Mona Kuhn: Study; Book 3: Juergen Teller: The Nipple; Book 4: Carmen Winant: Body Index.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Beyond The Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism
$30.00 Add to cartSilvia Federici
Oakland: PM Press, 2020.
“More than ever, the ‘body’ is today at the centre of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans and ecological movements all look at the body as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist development has generated and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence. Here, lifelong activist and bestselling author Silvia Federici examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the body into a work-machine. In this process she confronts some of the most important questions for radical political projects. What does ‘the body’ mean, today, as a category of social/political action? What are the processes, institutional or anti-systemic, by which it is constituted? How do we dismantle the tools by which our bodies have been “enclosed” and collectively reclaim our capacity to govern them?” (publisher’s blurb) -
The Eye of the Needle
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Second Edition.
29.5cm x 21cm. 124 pages, illustrations, some colour. Pictorial wrappers.
On tattoo, piercing, and scarification.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Small stain to lower spine crown. Very Good Condition. -
Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual
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Reprint.
28cm x 21.5cm. 216 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Re/Search #12 on tattoo, piercing, and scarification.
Very minor foxing to edges. Near Fine Condition. -
A History of Women’s Bodies
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First UK Edition.
24cm x 16cm. xiv, 398 pages. Blue cloth, silver lettering, jacket.
Minor general wear. Minor discolouration to cloth and jacket spine. Very Good Condition. -
The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. viii, 208 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
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Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
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25cm x 17cm. xviii, 400 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Ex-library, stamps and stickers. Moderate general wear. Good Condition (ex-library). -
Pagan Fleshworks: The Alchemy of Body Modification
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First Edition.
25.5cm x 20cm. 116 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Some creasing to wrappers. Some foxing. Friends of the Library stamp. Good Condition. -
(In) Scribing Body/Landscape Relations
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 15cm. 277 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
“This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other.” (from Trove). Published ca. 2000. The author was a Professor of Education at James Cook University.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Some rubbing to wrappers. Very Good Condition. -
The Body of Myth: Mythology, Shamanic Trance, and the Sacred Geography of the Body
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28cm x 22cm. xiii, 369 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
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The Body and The Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship
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First Edition.
Book is in Near Fine condition, by which we mean almost as if in its original new condition, but containing very slight marks of age and/or wear from light handling. Near Fine Condition. -
Semiotic Flesh: Information & the Human Body
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Reprint.
25.5cm x 18cm. [vi], 71 pages. Wrappers.
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Raw
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First Edition.
31cm x 23.5cm. 178 pages, black and white illustrations. Black cloth, grey lettering, pictorial french fold jacket.
Very minor foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s inscription. Very minor shelf wear to jacket. Near Fine Condition. -
Bodies: Why we Look the Way We Do (And How We Feel About It)
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First Edition.
22cm x 14.5cm. 288 pages. Quarter cream cloth, blue papered boards, no jacket.
Minor bumping and insect damage to boards. Very minor creasing to spine. Minor tanning and discolouration. Very Good Condition. -
Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. vii, 237. Illustrated matte papered boards.
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Woman as Design: Before Behind Between Above Below
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First Edition.
29cm x 26cm. 336 pages, colour illustrations and photographs. White papered boards, illustration to upper board, grey lettering, embossed cloth jacket.
A study of woman, as a figure, a particular focus on the breast and idealised feminine form. “A mix of design, cultural history, erotica, fashion, fetishism, and sharp observation”. Lavishly illustrated with both historical and contemporary imagery.
Near Fine Condition in Good Jacket. Very minor foxing to top edge. Jacket tanned. Near Fine Condition. -
Belief, Bodies and Being: Feminist Reflections on Embodiment
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 15cm. x, 220 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Laminate peeling from wrappers along fore-edges. Highlighting. Bookseller’s price sticker. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition. -
The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 16cm. x, 261 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor creasing to wrappers. Previous owner’s name. Minor highlighting. Good Condition. -
Erotic Book: Erotica Secrets of Sexy Female Bodies for Men and Women
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Reprint.
23cm x 15cm. viii, 122 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor handling wear. Minor bump to crown fore-edge corner, very minor bump to tail fore-edge corner. Very Good Condition. -
Space, Time and Perversion: The Politics of Bodies
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. x, 273 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering.
Previous owner’s name. Near Fine Condition. -
Space, Time and Perversion: The Politics of Bodies
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First Australian Edition.
23cm x 15cm. x, 273 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor creasing and foxing. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition. -
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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New Edition.
20cm x 13cm. xii, 383 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
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Breasts: Women Speak About Their Breasts and Their Lives
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First Edition.
28cm x 21.5cm. 286 pages, black and white illustrations. Lettered wrappers.
Discolouration to wrappers. Moderate insect damage to fore-edge. Minor foxing. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition. -
Space, Time and Perversion: The Politics of Bodies
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First Australian Edition.
23cm x 15cm. x, 273 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor soiling to edges. Previous owner’s name. Very Good Condition. -
Body and Soul: An Aboriginal View
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First Edition.
25cm x 17.5cm. xxvi, 308 pages, 1 map (laid in). Brown cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
“This extraordinary book describes the conceptualisation of the human body, soul, and health at the Kukatja people, who now live at Balgo, in the far north of Western Australia. It is without a doubt the best book I have read in the past two decades on any topic concerning Australian Aborigines. Packed with absolutely fascinating and new information, it also makes a challenging read; the effort required is, however, amply rewarded. .. The book is aimed primarily at the medical practitioners working in the Aboriginal communities. .. To date, this book represents the only attempt to put together an account of the views of an Aboriginal people concerning the body, its functioning, health, medical practices, and the soul or spirit, showing how these fit together as a coherent system of knowledge.” (W.B. McGregor, Anthropos 1999 1/3)
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The Body and the Self
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 16cm. viii, 376 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Minor soiling to edges. Previous owner’s name. Very Good Condition.