Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World (Paperback)

Preface to the American Edition
1. The Depth of the Surface: Introduction
2. Boundary Metaphors: Skin in Language
3. Penetrations: Body Boundaries and the Production of Knowledge in Medicine and Cultural Practices
4. Flayings: Exposure, Torture, Metamorphoses
5. Mirror of the Soul: The Epidermis as Canvas
6. Mystification: The Strangeness of the Skin
7. Armored Skin and Birthmarks: The Imagology of a Gender Difference
8. Different Skin: Skin Colors in Literature and the History of Science
9. Blackness: Skin Color in African-American Discourse
10. Hand and Skin: Anthropology and Iconography of the Cutaneous Senses
11. Touchings: On the Analogous Nature of Erotic, Emotive, and "Psychic'' Skin Sensations
12. Teletactility: The Skin in New Media