Fingerprints : writing about touch / Constance Classen -- Contact / Constance Classen -- Handshakes -- Tactile communication / Ruth Finnegan -- The social kiss -- Skinscapes : embodiment, culture and environment / David Howes -- Touch in the classroom -- Handling children : to touch or not to touch? / Anthony Synnott -- The quiet flow of touch -- The American touch : tactile imagery in American religion and politics / David Chidester -- Pleasure / Constance Classen -- I want to hold your hand -- The pleasures of touch / Yi Fu Tuan -- Thermal delight -- Homely pleasures : the pursuit of comfort in the eighteenth century / John E. Crowley -- Scratching where it itches -- Bourgeois love : Mabel Loomis Todd / Peter Gay -- The caress -- Desiring touch in Sartre and Beauvoir / Penelope Deutscher -- The touch of God -- Pain / Constance Classen -- Speaking of pain -- The language of pain in India / Judy Pugh -- Headaches -- The tortures of the Inquisition and the invention of modern guilt / Ariel Glucklich -- Stoicism -- Primate experiments : Harry Harlow and the technology of love / Donna Haraway -- The pangs of rejection -- Sex, pain and the Marquis de Sade / David B. Morris -- Male bonding / Constance Classen -- "Threads of manly friendship" -- The men's house : touching and wrestling among / Mehinaku men / Thomas Gregor -- Handymen -- The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part I / E.D. Tyndale-Biscoe -- The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part II / Satadru Sen -- School of hard knocks -- Sexuality and the drill : the body reconstructed in the military academy / Klaus Theweleit -- Warrior love -- The dying kiss : intimacy and gender in the trenches of the first work war / Santanu Das -- A hard man is good to find -- Women's touch / Constance Classen -- Women's work -- Feminine tactics : crafting an alternative esthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Constance Classen -- Binding women in China -- Nu shu : inscribing femininity in China / Wang Ping -- Saarak's crisis : childbirth and weaning among the inuit / Jean Briggs -- Throwing like a girl -- Seamstress and marketwoman : working women in twentieth-century Paris / Madeleine Henrey -- The mosaic makers / Karli Whitmore -- Warrior women -- Control / Constance Classen -- When can a man touch a woman? -- On medieval manners / Norbert Elias -- Don't touch the art -- Touch in the museum / Constance Classen -- Hands off -- Spouse beating -- In a victorian prison : privations of the flesh / Philip Priestley -- Untouchable -- Bourgeois perception : the gaze and the contaminating touch / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Security crises -- Uncommon touch / Constance Classen -- Fire in the mind -- Phantom touch in "The case of George Dedlow" / S. Weir Mitchell -- Still life -- Autism and "The squeeze machine" / Temple Grandin -- Pure touch -- Rainfall and the blind body / John Hull -- Balancing acts -- Tactilism / F.T. Marinetti -- What's going on in there? -- Visual perception / Drew Leder -- Nightmare touch -- Tactile therapies / Constance Classen -- Dr. Touch -- Magical healing : the king's touch / Keith Thomas -- Sweat baths -- Ayurvedic medicine and the history of massage / S.V. Govindan -- Breathing spaces : Qigong and healing / Nancy Chen -- The healing paw -- A touch of danger : the bedside manners of the eighteenth-century physician / Roy Porter -- Domesticating madwomen -- The golden age of electrotherapy / Caroline Thomas de la Peña -- The immune system -- Touch and technology / Constance Classen -- The mechanized body -- Polishing your heart / Dorinne Kondo -- Modernist fictions of speed / Sara Danius -- "Make it snuggle in the palm" : the commodification of touch / Roy Sheldon and Egmont Arens -- Nerve endings -- Grasping the image : when photographs are handled / Elizabeth Edwards -- The body retouched -- Digital touch / Mark Paterson -- Weaving a new world -- Spacemaking : experiences of a virtual body / Susan Kozel -- Virtual touch.
Summary:
From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.
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