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CNX 113 - Body Modification

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A transplanted face? Kidneys for sale? Tongue studs? The human body and its modification are big business these days and the subject of much contemporary writing. Cultural developments and scientific research have opened up new scenarios for thinking of the human body along political, social, gender, racial, sexual, even fantastic, lines. Though our focus will be literary, our inquiry will extend to texts drawn from various disciplines that discuss the phenomenon of body modification and to the many and varied practices that modify bodies: tattooing, piercing, scarification, branding, body sculpting, dieting, body-building, cosmetic surgery, transsexualism, and anorexia, to name a few.
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