If the skin has always been pressing, it has never been so much in evidence as it seems to be today.
An edition of The Book of Skin
(2003)
The Book of Skin
by Steven Connor
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"The Book of Skin explores the amazingly varied meanings of human skin in Western culture from classical times to the here and now. Every aspect and nuance of skin in history is to be found here: its poetry as well as its pathology, the chromatics of its pigmentation, the destructive rage exercised against it in violent fantasies, the shivering titillations of itch, the intensities and attenuations of erotic touch, blushing, suntanning, tattooing, flaying, stigmata, scarification, moles, birthmarks, massage, ointments and aromatics."--BOOK JACKET.
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Body, Human, History, Human Body, Human skin color, Skin, Social aspects, Social aspects of Skin, Social aspects of the Human body, Human body, social aspects, Culture, Skin Pigmentation, Peau, Aspect social, Histoire, Couleur de la peau, Corps humain, Culture note, Geschichte, Kultur, Haut| Edition | Availability |
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The Book of Skin
December 11, 2003, Cornell University Press
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in English
0801488931 9780801488931
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"If the skin has always been pressing, it has never been so much in evidence as it seems to be today."
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