Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment and that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection's 14 previously unpublished essays grapple with the place of bodies in a range of twenty-first century knowledge practices, including trauma, surveillance, aging, fat, food, feminist technoscience, death, disability, biopolitics, and race, among others.  The book's projected audience includes teachers and scholars of bodies and embodiment, interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners, and scholars interested in the any of the substantive content covered in the book. The collection could be adopted in courses on the body at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, including: cultural studies; queer, gender and sexuality studies; body and power; biopolitics; intersectional approaches to the body; anthropology of the body; sociology of the body; embodiment and space; digital bodies; anthropology of knowledge production; health, illness, and medicine studies; science, knowledge, and technology studies; and philosophy and social theory.

MONICA CASPER Professor of Women's Studies at Arizona State, USA.

PAISLEY CURRAH Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, USA.

Bringing Forth the Body; P.Currah& M.J.Casper Distributed Reproduction; M.Murphy Multiculturalist White Supremacy and the Substructure of the Body; D.Rodríguez Materializing Hope: Racial Pharmaceuticals, Suffering Bodies, and Biological Citizenship; J.X.Inda Dismantling Food Pyramids, Embodying Food Studies; D.A.Freedman Epistemologies of Fatness: The Political Contours of Embodiment in Fat Studies; K.LeBesco Disability, Disciplinarity, and the Problem with Posthumanism; D.Serlin Identities without Bodies: The New Sexuality Studies; L.J.Moore& L.Rodriguez The Bugs of the Earth: The Politics of Nature, Labor, and the Body under Socialism; D.Mincyte Somatechnics Manifesto; S.Stryker& N.Sullivan The Audible Body; S.Magnet Virtual Body Modification: Embodiment, Identity and Non-Conforming Avatars; M.Kosut Trauma's Essential Bodies; M.Stevens Hold On!: Falling, Embodiment and the Materiality of Old Age; S.Katz The Gimmick: or, The Productive Labor of Non-living Bodies; G.Sanders