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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series
Sensory formations, Sensory formations series

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Dewey Decimal Class
302/.12
Library of Congress
GN279.T68 B66 2005, BF275

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xii, 461 p. ;
Number of pages
461

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OL22635505M
ISBN 10
1845200594, 1845200586
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2550064

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