In Meaning in Our Bodies, Heike Peckruhn argues that scholars who appeal to the importance of bodily experiences need to acquire a robust and nuanced understand

Bodies move, and they express. There is a body language, and there is a language employed to refer to the body, its parts, and the states of its being. Consciou

The present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the

What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdiscipli

From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American