Jeffrey Jerome Cohen & Gail Weiss 
Thinking the Limits of the Body [PDF ebook] 

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bodies at the Limit
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss

PART I: HORIZONS

1. Histories of the Present and Future: Feminism, Power, Bodies
Elizabeth Grosz

2. The Body as a Narrative Horizon
Gail Weiss

PART II: DERMAL BOUNDARIES

3. Cutups in Beauty School
Linda S. Kauffman

4. Deep Skin
William A. Cohen

PART III: RACIAL EDGES

5. Ontological Crisis and Double Narration in African American Fiction: Reconstructing Our Nig
Laura Doyle

6. Parallaxes: Cannibalism and Self-Embodiment; or, The Calvinist Reading of Tupi A-Theology
Sara Castro-Klar´en

PART IV: DIS-ABLING ALLIANCES

7. Making Freaks: Visual Rhetorics and the Spectacle of Julia Pastrana
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

8. Critical Investments: AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and Queer/Disability Studies
Robert Mc Ruer

PART V: LIMINALITIES

9. The Inhuman Circuit
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

10. Mourning the Autonomous Body
Debra B. Bergoffen

About the Contributors

Index

At The George Washington University,
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Associate Professor of English and Human Sciences and
Gail Weiss is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Human Sciences Program. Cohen is the author of
Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages. Weiss is the author of
Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality and coeditor (with Honi Fern Haber) of
Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture.