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by Lucy Sargisson
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Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression Summary
| A study of utopianism as a critique of the political present. The book is organised around three types of body: bodies of thought, of people and physical bodies. It covers three areas: feminism, environmentalism and sex/gender theory. |
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| What do we want? What do we believe to be wrong with the world? How can we best change it? How should we live? Given the world as it is, how can we best achieve our dreams and desires? Utopian Bodies is, quite simply, a new approach to thinking about theory. Using the dominant themes of green and feminist politics, this fascinating and original text creates a new notion of utopian thought and life - "transgressive utopianism". This new concept is not a blueprint for an ideal polity; instead it demonstrates an approach to the world that is both idealistic and pragmatic, focussing on bodies of thought in relation to bodies of people: communities. Also spanning philosophy, political theory and deconstruction, this book is especially relevant today as the millennium marks a time of resurgence in utopian studies |
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| This book argues that there is a radical and transformative potential in the utopian body'. Lucy Sargisson looks at three different types of body to explore the notion of transgressive utopianism: bodies of thought: including feminism, ecological thought and the politics of sexuality and gender bodies of people: utopian communities including feminist, New Age and gender communities, actual physical bodies: exploring ideas of pornography and the sexed representation of women, cosmetic surgery, body-piercing and tattooing, transexualism and cross-dressing. |
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