The human body—the “thing” that accompanies us wherever we go—is central to most of the burning questions in our culture’s collective mind. The body is just there. And, for that very reason, we are putting it to the test as we reject, starve, exploit, re-build—chemically, surgically, digitally, cybernetically—and finally incinerate it. Though we have been at this for centuries, what has become clearer in recent years is that the dominion of nature at large has at last become the dominion of our nature, especially there where it puts us in relations we have not chosen—with our origin (mother and father), with the opposite sex, and with our children. This is precisely why we have turned on the body.
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Book Reviews
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Debunking the Myths of Pornography by Richard Budd
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Matthew Fradd, The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography
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From Mummies to Michelangelo: Transformation of the Body in Art by Laurel Dugan
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Elizabeth and José Granados Lev, A Body for Glory: Theology of the Body in the Papal Collections: the Ancients, Michelangelo and John Paul II
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Losing Animals, Losing Ourselves by Lesley Rice
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Craig Holdrege, The Flexible Giant: Seeing the Elephant Whole
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The Advent of the "New" Body by Ellen Roderick
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Hervé Juvin, Coming of the Body
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