Approximate Bodies : Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy (Paperback)

Acknowledgements Note on texts Introduction: Thinking about the body 1. "That Body of Hers": The secret, the specular, the spectacular in the Duchess of Malfi and Anatomical Discourses 2. "Behind the Back of Life": Uncanny bodies and identities in the Changeling 3. "A Meer Choas": Moles, abject bodies, and the economy of reproductive discourses 4. "Strange Flesh" and "Unshap't" Bodies: Monstrosity, hyperbolic masculinity and "racial" difference 5. "Un-pleasurable" Detours: Figurations of desire and the body erotic Bibliography Index