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Transgressions

Manufacturer: Forge Books
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ASIN: 0765308517
Release Date: 2005-04-21

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Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never-before-published tales from today's very best novelists. Faeturing: "Walking Around Money" by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all-new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he's left holding the bag."Hostages" by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits-and honor-still die hard, even at gunpoint."The Corn Maiden" by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen-year-old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it."Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line" by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems."The Resurrection Man" by Sharyn McCrumb": During America's first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft-including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive."Merely Hate" by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence."The Things They Left Behind" by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers-when he begins finding the things they left behind."The Ransome Women" by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year-long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome's past subjects? "Forever" by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop-he's a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn't suicide-it's murder, and he's going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it."Keller's Adjustment" by Lawrence Block: Everyone's favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

Customer Reviews:

A Reading Buffet.......2006-02-09

Transgressions provides readers with the opportunity to sample ten different offerings from ten different authors. There is a gritty 87th Precinct novella from Ed Mcbain and a lyrical offering on a child abduction from Joyce Carol Oates. Steven King is well represented with a short but strangely moving tale of a 911 survivor haunted by his souveniers from his unlucky co-workers.

I enjoyed Transgressions for both its quality and variety. While no story in particular was a stand out, each provided a sample of the particular author's style. Like a buffet, a taste is really all you need to determine where (and whether) you will return for second and third helpings.

A smorgasbord of great reads!.......2006-01-08

After the success of his novel BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, Evan Hunter (Ed McBain) turned to what were then referred to as "novelettes," his subject being the 87th Precinct detectives of Isola (think New York). As time passed, the 87th Precinct novelettes grew to full-length novels. Fifty years later, McBain persuaded nine other mystery, thriller, and horror writers to submit what are now called "novellas" of around a hundred pages each.

The result was one of my most enjoyable reads of 2006. I don't know why I don't read more anthologies. It was in an anthology that I first experienced Stuart Kaminsky, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lawrence Block.

Coincidentally, one of the best novellas in this anthology is one by Block. Block returns with his enigmatic hit man Keller in KELLER'S ADJUSTMENT. Block manages to make us feel empathy for the man. Although he has sex with a Phoenix real estate saleslady, Keller is essentially a lonely man. He needs somebody to talk to. He once had a dog, but a former girlfriend took it with him when she left; he went to a therapist, but the therapist turned into a snoop, and he had to dust him. Unwilling to take a chance on a living breathing entity, Keller buys a stuffed animal to talk to.

Jeffrey Deaver also responded to the call with FOREVER. In it he introduces Tal Simms, a mathematician/statistician working for Westbrook County Sheriff's Department. Simms is considered a "computer geek" by the rest of the detective squad, especially homicide detective Greg "Bear" LaTour. Simms and his eventual partner LaTour are confronted with several suspicious suicides. Older rich couples are killing themselves under dubious circumstances. In most respects, the underdog character Simms is every bit as likable as Lincoln Rhymes. I would definitely buy a full length novel featuring Simms.

A new discovery for me was John Farris. Farris's THE RANSOME WOMEN concerns a beautiful art appraiser named Echo Halloran who agrees to pose for the great artist John Leland Ransome. She's not only flattered, but as a budding artist herself, she wants to learn from him. Her boyfriend, police detective Peter O'Neil, is suspicious, and with good reason. I enjoyed this novella so much I ran right out and bought FURY, THE TERROR Farris's masterwork.

I have to admit that Ed McBain's own contribution, MERELY HATE, was my principal motivation for purchasing the anthology. I needed my 87th Precinct fix, and it's great as usual. It is post 9/11 in Isola, and the detectives are called to investigate the murder of a Muslim cab driver. Through these cab driver murders, McBain capsulizes the reason for the problems in the Mid East.

Other writers who contributed novellas were Donald Westlake, Anne Perry, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, Sharyn McCrumb, and Stephen King. All of them were excellent.

More Novellas, Please.......2005-11-11

Hopefully Ed McBain's effort in convincing a stellar cast of fellow writers to contribute the novellas that comprise "Transgressions" will induce publishers to encourage more of the same.
Don't get me wrong, I love long novels. But, in these days when we all seem to have less time than we'd like, the novella is the perfect form to consume in a short period. And, the novella is a deserving and time-honored part of literature. Nabokov and Simenon, to name two among many, excelled in the form.
McBain, who contributed an interesting tale of his own, deserves kudos for the roster of superstars who joined him in this venture. The 10 stories provide a good introduction for those not familiar with the work of some of these writers.
Naturally, some stories are better than others. That, of course, being defined by personal taste.
My own favorite would have to be Anne Perry's "Hostages," a moving look at the continuing plight of families in Northern Ireland. Sharyn McCrumb contributes an excellent Southern gothic tale, "The Resurrection Man," and the awesome Walter Mosley is represented with "Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large." There are also tales by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Jeffrey Deaver, John Farris, Donald Westlake and Lawrence Block.
I can truthfully say I enjoyed all 10 stories and a few writers who were less familiar to me will now receive more attention.

Death In Varied Forms by the Best........2005-11-11

Since I am a big fan of Sharyn McCrumb, this compilation was chosen to find something harking back to her historical novels. "The Resurrection Man" was Southern in setting alright, in Georgia instead of Tennessee, North Carolina or Virginia, but it predated her Appalachian ballads. Why she chose such a morbid subject is beyond me. This story takes place in pre-Civil War and concerns the maneuvering of a medical school doctor to get the cadavers he needs for anatomy class.

In 1852, Dr.George Newton, was forty-five years old and paid his carefully-selected servant to obtain supplies (newly-buried bodies from the cemetery) saying, "We must make use of the dead to help the living." After serving fifteen years doing this grotesque work, he returns to show the freed blacks with white guardians how to be grave robbers. In 1859, the doctor contracts tetanus (lockjaw). Then the war intervened, bypassing Augusta, for the big city of Atlanta. Slaves were called servants. The doctor's supplier returns to the college as a porter.

Walter Mosley contributed "Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large." The longest was John Farris' "The Ransome Women." Lawrence Block wrote "Keller's Adjustment." This collection of ten stories was edited by Ed McBain, a writer in his own right. TRANSGRESSIONS is a "quintessential classic collection of stories" by mystery writers.

10 Excellent Novellas.......2005-10-26

From what I've read, it seems like a lot of readers bought this just for the King novella. While King's short novella excellent, I highly recommend you read all the others, too. There's a lot of good material in this big book!

AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

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Incredible show; mediocre book

AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
Andrew Bolton , and Harold Koda
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ASIN: 030011785X

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Anglomania, the craze for all things English, gripped Europe during the mid-to-late 18th century. As perceived by Anglophiles such as Voltaire and Montesquieu, England was a land of reason, freedom, and tolerance, a place where the Enlightenment found its greatest expression. What began as an intellectual phenomenon, however, became and has remained a matter of style. Through the lens of fashion, AngloMania examines aspects of English culture, such as class, sport, royalty, pageantry, eccentricity, the gentleman, and the country garden, which have fuelled the European and American imagination.
This beautiful book presents historical costumes juxtaposed with late 20th- and early 21st-century fashions by Hussein Chalayan, John Galliano, Stephen Jones, Shaun Leane, Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, and Vivienne Westwood. As with the hugely successful exhibition “Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century” at the Metropolitan Museum, the clothing is styled as a series of thematic vignettes in the Museum’s English Period Rooms. This book comprises photographs of the installations along with text written by Andrew Bolton.
From AngloMania, we learn that Englishness is a romantic construct based on fictive and imaginary narratives. In terms of fashion, these narratives emerge as ones that are satirical, nostalgic, theatrical, and like the English weather, at once indomitable and unpredictable.

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Best of the Met.......2007-03-08

Since I saw the Anglomania show at the Met last spring, I anxiously awaited the publication of this book! It gives a good overview explaining the role of the fashions shown in the exhibit and is filled with photographs highlighting some of the most interesting aspects of the designers' work. I really enjoyed being able to see some of the accessories in greater detail than was possible in person. One caveat is that the photos are a bit dark, as would be expected to those who viewed the works in the dim gallery spaces, perhaps setting a somber tone to a show that was full of life. I really wish that Anglomania would have been available during the run of the exhibit!

Wonderful............2007-03-02

If you were lucky enough to see this show you know what a wonderful, edgy but beautiful exhibit it was. I was so happy there would be a book and anticipated it for many many months. I know that no book can recreate the actual expereince of being there so just having the visual representations in the photographs, which by the way I found to be very good, it looked just the way it looked when you were there more or less. Of course I felt there could have been more, but it does cover the entire exhibit. The quality if the book is great. I love to cover and under the dust jacket is nice too. Very glad I purchased this after waiting so long after the show. If you loved AngloMania, or just fashion and costume you need this book.

Incredible show; mediocre book.......2007-02-06

This was one of the most beautiful and innovative special exhibitions I have ever seen at the Met in the 25 years I've been going there. I bought the book on Amazon, sight unseen, because it was published after the show closed. What a shame - the book doesn't approach the quality of the show, simply because the Met obviously did not hire a photographer up to this level of aesthetic. It is not a book of photography depicting the show so much as a _catlogue_ of the show, a reference book using technically able but sterile lighting. Oddly too harsh and too flat at the same time. Disappointing.

The Politics and Poetics of Transgression

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The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
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The Road Less Traveled: Examining Inner Life
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Transgressions
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ASIN: 0812974301
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Sarah Dunant, a television host in London, begins and ends her poignant and powerful Transgressions with music by Van Morrison. When Lizzie Skvorecky can't find her favorite Morrison compact disc, Enlightenment, she thinks it might have something to do with the breakup of her last romance. Lizzie, the British daughter of Czech immigrants, is a translator, and her latest job is a tough Czech crime novel involving torture and rape. At first she writes off the weird things happening around her to either her ex-lover or the influence of her work. But soon Lizzie realizes she's in serious trouble, stalked by a vicious rapist, and not even the police can protect her. So she takes things into her own hands. By the time the book ends with Morrison singing "The Healing Has Begun," you'll know you've been on a rough and memorable trip.

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Elizabeth is a modern woman. Smart. Independent. As sexual as she wants to be–with whomever she wants to be. But a breakup with her academic boyfriend has hit her harder than she cares to admit. And while her latest gig, translating a glitzy Czech thriller into English, offends her literary sensibilities, it arouses others with its steamy scenes of eroticism, violence, submission, and dominance.

Then, when her favorite Van Morrison CD disappears from its rack and her house is inexplicably violated, Elizabeth is afraid she’s starting to lose it–she even consults a local vicar about the possibility of poltergeists.

But what this woman in the lovely Victorian is experiencing is not supernatural. Nor is it madness. For in the dead of night, she will suddenly come face-to-face with her tormentor. She will smell him, she will touch him, and she will make a choice. Then the real haunting will begin.

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“A sinewy and intelligent thriller about the power relations between men and women . . . [Dunant keeps] those pages turning.”
– Esquire

“A chilling–sometimes terrifying–and tautly written thriller.”
– The Times (London)

“Dunant demands your total attention. . . . [Her skill is] in orchestrating tension, both sexual and psychological.”
– Literary Review

“A supercharged, knuckle-in-the-mouth, heart-stopping roller-coaster of a book.”
– The Irish Times

“Pulses with emotional truth and heart.”
– The Mail on Sunday

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The Road Less Traveled: Examining Inner Life.......2007-05-20

I admire Sarah Dunant as an author because she has the ability to flay open her psyche and share it with us readers. In Transgressions this took courage because it is politically incorrect to imply that rape could be so complex as to (under the right circumstances) sexually stimulate the "victim" as well as the rapist. She also explores the complexity of a rapists motives. This isn't the usual binary good vs evil simplicity that most thrillers offer. Here, the author risks our disapproval by taking her protagonist into the shadows along with her tormentor. The subplot regarding a trashy novel that is being translated mirrors the main theme in a fascinating way. This is a very thoughtful novel which asks us readers to explore our own knee jerk reactions to good and evil. In doing this we must confront the possibility that our world may indeed be more of a "Net of Indra" than a simple good/bad cartoon. Dunant spent a most of this book doing what, I think, she does best, which is to deftly psychoanalyze her characters' motives, thoughts, impulses and imagination. She is brutally candid both with herself and with us, her readers. As a man, I enjoy the insights she permits us into the female psyche. This was not a classic mystery thriller. For me it was an invitation to explore that part of the human experience which rarely gets brought to the "party". We all have private thoughts and desires but do not ever reveal them. Dunant does an exquisite job of letting us into her shadow world. Bravo.

Utterly mediocre.......2007-01-16

Interesting idea, but not very well written. Lizzie's reluctance to use curtains encourages a man's obsession, and when she spends the night with a new boyfriend, his ire. In the hands of a better writer, this could have been a thrilling tale, but as it is, kind of pedestrian and lacking any insight. The idea that anyone would seriously consider a poltergeist, rather than a human agent, in an urban setting in this day and age, really strains credulity.

a medium work.......2007-01-10

After The Birth of Venus and Mapping the Edge, this one is a little disappointing. The psychology of the characters and the prose are powerful, but the plot is weaker, the imagination more mediocre, and the details not as convincing. But I still strongly recommend Dunant. She is enjoyable and gives things to think over. I'd just say, if anyone is still deciding between Mapping the Edge and this one, "Go for Mapping".

Entertaining But Flawed.......2006-07-10

Dunant is a pleasant writer with real skills. She does a nice job with her characterization and her plotting--unfortunately, her imagination--well, that's the flaw.

As a member of modern society, I cannot stomach the key scene of the novel. In this scene, our heroine chooses, when confronted with a rapist, to pseudoseduce him instead. Yes, she convinces herself that she controlled an otherwise horrible experience, but Dunant's describing our heroine as aroused and emotionally not affected during or after the assault is pure stupidity. Trying to see it otherwise really doesn't work.

I don't have too much of a problem with the rest of the story, and there's a good climax. Again, however, her response to her would-be rapist at the end shows Dunant hasn't quite thought it through. She needs to read a few true-crime accounts of rape to clue her into the devastation that accompanies every moment during and after that trauma. The story is an interesting concept, but I would read other Dunant novels instead of Transgressions.

Woman Disturbed.......2005-08-16

I thought I was going to read a smart thriller and Boy, I was surprised. I admit I agreed with most of her thoughts and perceptions but with her being seductive to a rape-intentioned stranger? That was like the inner mad impulse of a female attraction to the wild, unpredictble thing... even too crude.

At one point, I thought Eliza was crazy in inviting him in the first place. Why didn't she just make a move to cunningly seize the weapon and attack him while he was in a trance? Like the woman she created on top of the original translation work would do? Yes, it's true, a woman always fights back but I don't think the fight-back principal was presented well in this story. Her want of the stranger was too obvious to be taken as a revenge or a fight back. Perhaps that the whole point, Eliza didn't know herself well. It is the Dr. Jeckyl and Ms. Hyde problem. The dark side you never want to recognize.

Although this is not my cup of tea, I felt intrigued by the ending. There was a spark of ingenious when you can review the whole story.
Mind you of the many (I mean MANY) the F*** word.

Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression

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Interdisciplinary means just that
Fatness/Transgression/Feminism/Lesbianism/Sexuality

Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression

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Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body. The contributors to this collection show that what counts as fat and how it is valued are far from universal; the variety of meanings attributed to body size in other times and places demonstrates that perceptions of corpulence are infused with cultural, historical, political, and economic biases. The exceptionally rich and engaging essays collected in this volume question discursive constructions of fatness while analyzing the politics and power of corpulence and addressing the absence of fat people in media representations of the body.
The essays are widely interdisciplinary; they explore their subject with insight, originality, and humor. The contributors examine the intersections of fat with ethnicity, race, queerness, class, and minority cultures, as well as with historical variations in the signification of fat. They also consider ways in which "objective" medical and psychological discourses about fat people and food hide larger agendas. By illustrating how fat is a malleable construct that can be used to serve dominant economic and cultural interests, Bodies Out of Bounds stakes new claims for those whose body size does not adhere to society's confining standards.

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Interdisciplinary means just that.......2007-04-01

The editorial review for the book noted that it was interdisciplinary and would deal with issues linking fat with feminism and queerness. In a lot of ways you can't separate the issues of fat and feminism, and this collection deals with that. If you can't handle it, don't read it.

Fatness/Transgression/Feminism/Lesbianism/Sexuality.......2007-01-04

I got this book due to personal interest in female fat identity and how Western culture tries to vilify it. I wanted something in depth. However I think the title of this book is misleading. It should reference how many of the essays collected here focus not only on fat identity but strongly couple it with feminist theory and lesbianism. Not only this, but in Le'a Kent's article "Fighting Abjection" there is a lengthy quote from the zine FaT GiRL about an S&M sexual encounter. I certainly wasn't expecting this and the article would have been just as good if she referenced the zine without quoting at such length and with such graphic detail. I thought about it later and realized I would have been just as offended if the enounter had been between a man and a fat women though it was a woman and a fat woman. I write this article to warn other readers. There is some fine thinking in this book. Unfortunately it is overshadowed by convoluted feminist "speak" where you need a degree to follow their logic and understand their terminology, a heavy bias towards lesbian theory and some literary porn.

Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a Canadian City, 1816-1970

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Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a Canadian City, 1816-1970
John C. Weaver
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I feel a bit cheated
Fabulous vampire mythos

Vampire Transgression
Michael Schiefelbein
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In the tradition of Anne Rice and Poppy Z. Brite-a compelling novel of blood, lust,and bloodlust M ichael Schiefelbein's two previous novels-Vampire Vow and Vampire Thrall-have garnered him a wide following. Now, with Vampire Transgression, he brings the story begun in Vampire Vowto a shuddering conclusion.

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I feel a bit cheated.......2006-06-21

The first two books gave me such a rush, and I did not feel it continued in this one. Maybe it is because the love is already established, hence the sexual tension between the two MC's is a lil less, although... well, do not want to give too much of the book away.

I felt like for the ending 50 pages of manuscript were cramped into 10. There were so many unanswered questions at the end of the book, one of them being one of the major plot points in the series...

But, I do give the book 4 stars, because of the solid writing, even though the plot is a bit more wobbly than in the previous two books (which both are a solid 5 stars)

If you love vampire mythos, and want to see a very unique take on the genre, read it. I can honestly say you won't regret reading the books. Also check out Blood Brothers, same writer. That book was even more mind boggling than this series.

Fabulous vampire mythos.......2006-05-20

Over two thousand years ago, Victor Decimus, son of patrician parents, was a Roman soldier stationed in Judea. He knew and loved Jesus who rejected his love; with his new knowledge that he could love and be hurt, he went to a vampire and asked her to transform him. Once she did, she went on to the DARK KINGDOM, a heavenly realm for vampires. Victor lived on hating Jesus and killing many members churchmen through the ages.

Now in the present he has found love with Paul who loved him enough to want to spend eternity with him. When Victor transforms Paul, he breaks two sacred rules of the vampire world, not passing on to the Dark Kingdom and staying with Paul in a consolidation of power that goes against the natural laws of the universe. The powers that be in the Dark Kingdom are getting ready to strike at Victor, but he believes, perhaps foolishly, that he can outwit them.

Fans of Brandon Massey and Poppy Z Brite will thoroughly enjoy this new take on the vampire mythos. Paul is an infant compared to Victor and doesn't want to be separated from his lover for the two centuries it will take for him to be eligible to enter the Dark Kingdom. Victor, who never loved like this before, makes many sacrifices for his lover and in the process becomes an endearing anti-hero. Michael Schiefelbein makes his audience believe vampires actually exist.

Harriet Klausner

The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression, and Intersubjectivity

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The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression, and Intersubjectivity
Michael Jackson
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Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations

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In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. These essays address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and trans-sexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies. Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity. This book also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.

Cultural Sniping: The Art of Transgression (Comedia)

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Cultural Sniping: The Art of Transgression (Comedia)
Jo Spence
Manufacturer: TF-ROUTL
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0415088844

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Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. Born into a working-class London family, she worked for many years as a studio photographer. Her political concerns led to documentary photography. Soon after completing her degree in the theory and practice of photography, she discovered she had breast cancer. Through her struggle to come to terms with the illness, to find non-invasive treatments and to share her experience with others, she developed unique ways of using photography.

Cultural Sniping brings together a wide range of Jo Spence's photographs and writings for the first time. Through images and texts she explores complex issues of gender, class, health and the body, and their impact on her understanding of personal history and the construction of identity.

Cultural Sniping includes images from Spence's early work in documentary photography and from her pioneering photo-therapy projects, undertaken in collaboration with other photographers. In her later work Spence faces up to the experience of illness and dying, and Cultural Sniping reproduces work from her Return to Nature and Death Mask series, in which she tries to come to terms with the reality of death. Jo Spence's commitment to engaging with personal experience, political understanding and critical theory make her writing and photography a vital contribution to our understanding of the politics of representation.

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