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An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's "exterior" is central to human subjectivity and relations. The authors explore racialization, body modification, self-harm, and comedic representations of skin, drawing from the clinical domain, visual arts, popular culture, and literature.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
SARA DAVIS is the book exhibits manager at University of Pennsylvania Press, and a doctoral candidate in American Literature at Temple University, USA
ERICA D. GALIOTO is Associate Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA
SHEILA KUNKLE is Assistant Professor of the College of Individualized Studies of Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
MARC LAFRANCE is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada
ANDREW HOCK SOON NG is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University Malaysia
STELLA NORTH is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia
SHAWN THOMSON is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis
Editors: Sheila L. Cavanagh, Angela Failler, Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300041
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-36506-3Published: 21 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34941-8Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30004-1Published: 21 January 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 277
Topics: Gender Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Arts, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis