Book Description
This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West. It asks whether this implies
Contributors address the question of the permanence of body transformation through fitness regimes and body building; look at the French performance artist Orlan and the Australian performance artist Stelarc who explored Western standard of beauty by experimenting on their own bodies with surgery and prosthetics; and explore the construction of the anatomy of a virtual body in Real Video Surgery and the Visible Human Project.
One of the first contributions to the exploration of a wide range of body transformation practices, Body Modification will be a key text for students across the social sciences and humanities, particularly in sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, communications, social psychology, art and design.
