當代社會思潮──2002年春

甯應斌(A212)



本課程將初步開始研讀一個目前正在蓬勃發展的新學術領域──「身體」。20世紀以來的社會文化思潮發展已經逐步脫離了古老的心身二分、心高過身的思考模式。事實上,從現象學學者梅洛龐帝到思想學者傅柯,身體逐漸被凸顯為自我形構和社會生活交織的場域,也因而成為自我和社會對話的場域。在女性主義、科技、生態、後現代主義、倫理學、醫療、消費文化等主題內的許多辯論中,身體都成為挑戰既有典範的重要切入議題。本課程除了選讀一些不同的概論以掌握這個領域的多元發展和衝擊之外,也將針對幾個特定的身體爭議進行思考,以期進一步認識有關身體的各種新思考模式和多元論述。

選課學生必須跟上每週的預讀,並且輪流在堂上做口頭報告,學期末則提出論文報告。

Readings:

Bourdieu, Pierre.  Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.  Trans. by Richard Nice.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1984.

Boyne, Roy.  “Citation and Subjectivity: Towards a Return of the Embodied Will.”  Featherstone, 209-225.

David, Lennard J.  “Disability, the Missing Term in the Race, Class, Gender Triad.”  “Constructing Normalcy.”  Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body.  London: Verso, 1995.  1-49.

Davis, Kathy.  “Facing the Dilemma.”  Hopkins, 286-305.

Featherstone, Mike, ed.  Body Modification.  London: Sage, 2000.

Foucault, Michel.  Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.  New York: Random House, 1977.  “Docile Bodies,” “The Means of Correct Training”

Haraway, Donna J.  “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.”  Hopkins, ed. 434-467.

Hopkins, Patrick D., ed.  Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1998.

Kessler, Sazanne J.  “The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants.”   Hopkins, ed. 241-260.

Morgan, Kathryn Pauly.  “Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women’s Bodies.”  Hopkins, 261-285.

Shilling, Chris.  The Body and Social Theory.  London: Sage, 1993.

Stone, Sandy.  “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto.”  Hopkins, 322-341.

Sweetman, Paul.  “Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self?: Body Modification, Fashion and Identity.”  Featherstone, ed. 51-76.

Turner, Bryan S.  “Introduction to the Second Edition: The Embodiment of Social Theory.”  The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory.  Second Edition.  London: Sage, 1996, 1999.  1-36.

---.  “The Possibility of Primitiveness: Toward a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies.”  Featherstone, ed. 39-50.

---.  “Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body.”  The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory.  Eds. by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, & Bryan S. Turner.  London: Sage, 1991.  1-35.

Tentative Schedule: 身體概論

日期

主題

預讀

09-10

課程簡介

 

09-17

領域導覽1

Turner, “Recent Developments” 1-35

09-24

領域導覽2

Turner, “Introduction to Second Edition” 1-36

10-01

天生我體

Shilling, “The Naturalistic Body” 41-69

10-08

社會建構

Shilling, “The Socially Constructed Body” 70-99

10-15

No class

(Teacher in conference in Beijing)

10-22

身體資本

Shilling, “The Body and Physical Capital” 127-149

Bourdieu, Distinction 190-196, 202-208

10-29

文明身體

Shilling, “The Civilized Body” 150-174

11-05

馴順/整合

Foucault, “Docile Bodies”

11-12

正常化/個人化

Foucault, “The Means to Correct Training”

11-19

誰是殘障

David, “Disability,” “Normalcy”1-49

11-26

醫療建構性別

Kessler, “Medical Construction” 241-260

12-03

跨性別主體論

Boyne, “Citation and Subjectivity” 209-225

Stone, “The Empire Strikes Back” 322-341

12-10

整型美容與女性主體

Davis, “Facing the Dilemma” 286-305

Morgan, “Women and the Knife” 260-285

12-17

刺青穿洞與當代自我

Sweetman, “Anchoring” 51-76

Turner, “Possibility” 39-50

12-24

後人類身體

Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto” 434-467

12-31

 

學生論文寫作綱要討論;總結

1-10

期末論文繳交