Abstract

In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir famously said that if the body is not a thing, it is a situation, as she framed the human body as a complex structure (composed of muscle, bone, brain, memory and affect) situated in other structures (gender, class, race, history, and power). As de Beauvoir went on to note, the body is our grasp on the world and the outline for our projects. It is through the body that we think, feel, and perceive.

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