Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America

Body Invaders explores the fate of the body in the postmodern condition. Introduced by theses on power and sexuality, it proceeds to analyze the key theoretical contributions of Bataille, Foucault, Baudrillard and Kristeva, and ranges widely over the suppressions and obsessions which mark theoretical discourse and public policy in relation to sexual eroticism, fashion, reproduction and bodily decay.

Contents:

1. Panic Sex in America
2. Theses on the Disappearing Body, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
3. The Year 2000 Has Already Happened, Jean Baudrillard
4. The Fashion Apparatus and the Deconstruction of Postmodern Subjectivity, Julia Emberley
5. A Tale of Inscription: Fashion Statements, Kim Sawchuk
6. Fashion and the Cultural Logic of Postmodernity, Gail Faurschou
7. Carnal Knowledge of Aesthetic States, Charles Levin
8. Body Shops: The Death of Georges Bataille, Andrew Haase
9. The Pornographer's Body Double: Transgression is the Law, Berkeley Kaite
10. Foucault's Disappearing Body, Greg Ostrander
11. A Ms.-Managed Womb, Eileen Manion
12. The Anorexic Body, Elspeth Probyn
13. The Challenge of Loss, Sam Schoenbau
14. Afraids, Stephan K. Anderson
15. Criminological Displacements, Stephen Pfohl and Avery Gordon
16. Letters in Excess, Stephen Pfohl
17. Body in Ruins, Catherine Richards
18. Dance of the Scarecrow Brides, Rae Anderson