Lev Tahor Im Eshkachech

Susie Orbach

Code 2010, € 17.00




watching ... the variety of gestures and body ornaments in the world, it is easy to see how it has always been an expression of a specific historical period and a specific geographical location, sexual, cultural or religious. Elongated necks force, painted faces, veiled heads, ankles, face, suits, colored hair, tattooed arms, bound feet, gold teeth, heads covered, male and female circumcisions, or painted nails are all signs of belonging to a cultural environment specific. The bodies are recognized based on morals and behavior that befits the group from which you come, you want to belong or with which you want to identify. The behaviors and body codes determine who we are. And even if you could think that they are not intentional, however, show that the body is neither natural nor pure, but inscribed in a culture and shaped by a myriad of very specific cultural practices. You can now see that, in many ways, has never existed a body of quite simple, "natural." It has always been formed by its social and cultural designations. What I argue in this book, however, is that the cultural discourse today is the entrance into a new period of destabilization of the body: the latter is the subject of a new frenzy induced by social forces absorbed and transmitted within the family, the context in which it acquires for the first time its own perception of the body.