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Writing the Body: Transnational Sex

  • Pettman J
Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2000), 52-71
DOI: 10.1057/9780333983904_4
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Abstract

… The subject is not an abstract entity, but rather a material embodied one. The body is not a natural thing; on the contrary, it is a cultur- ally coded socialised entity … The bodies are cultur- ally, sexually, racially specific bodies, the mobile and changeable terms of cultural production …

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Pettman, J. J. (2000). Writing the Body: Transnational Sex. In Political Economy, Power and the Body (pp. 52–71). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983904_4

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