The Book of Touch

Abstract

FINAL Fingerprints: Writing About Constance Classen, Concordia University I. Contact Contact Constance Classen, Concordia University Tactile Communication Ruth Finnegan, Open University Social Skin: Culture and Tactility David Howes, Concordia University Handling Children: To Touch or Not to Touch? Anthony Synnott, Concordia University American Touch: Tactile Imagery in American Religion and Politics' David Chidester, University of Cape Town, South Africa II. Pleasure Pleasure Constance Classen, Concordia University Pleasures of Touch Yi Fu Tuan Homely Pleasures: Pursuit of Comfort in the Eighteenth Century' John E. Crowley, Dalhousie University, Canada Bourgeois Love: Mabel Loomis Todd Peter Gay Desiring Touch in Sartre and Beavoir Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University, USA III. Pain Pain Constance Classen, Concordia University Language of Pain in India Judy Pugh, Michigan State University Tortures of the Inquisition and the Invention of Modern Guilt Ariel Glucklich, Georgetown University, USA Sex, Pain and the Marquis de Sade David B. Morris, University of Virginia Primate Experiments: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love Donna Harraway, University of California at Santa Cruz V. Male Bonding Male Bonding Constance Classen, University of Concordia Men's House: Touching and Wrestling Among Mehinaku Men Thomas Gregor, Vanderbilt University, USA Imperial Touch: Schooling Male Bodies in Colonial India 'Part I' - E.D. Tyndale-Biscoe, 'Part II' - Satadru Sen, Washington University, USA Sexuality and the Drill: Body Reconstructed in the Military Academy Klaus Theweleit, Freiburg University, Germany Dying Kiss: Intimacy and Gender in the Trenches of World War I Santanu Das, Cambridge University IV. Women's Touch Women's Touch Constance Classen, Concordia University Nu Shu: Female Writing in China Wang Ping, Macalester College, USA Sarak's Crisis: Childbirth and Weaning Among the Inuit Jean Briggs, Memorial University of Newfoundland Feminine Tactics: Designing Women in the Eighteenth Century Constance Classen, Concordia University Lacemaker and Laundress: Working Women in Early-Twentieth-Century Paris Madeleine Henrey VI. Control Control Constance Classen, Concordia University On Medieval Manners Norbert Elias Touch in the Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University Bourgeois Perception: Gaze and the Contaminating Touch Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania and Allon White In a Victorian Prison: Privations of the Flesh Philip Priestly VII. Uncommon Touch Uncommon Touch Constance Classen, Concordia University Phantom Touch in The Case of George Dedlow S. Weir Mitchell Autistic Touch and the Squeeze Machine Temple Grandin Rainfall and the Blind Body John Hull Tactilism F.T. Marinetti Visceral Perception Drew Leder, Layola College in Maryland, USA VIII. Touch Therapies Touch Therapies Constance Classen, Concordia University Magical Healing: King's Touch Keith Thomas A Touch of Danger: Bedside Manners of the Eighteenth-Century Physician Roy Porter Ayurvedic Medicine and the History of Massage S.V. Govindan Breathing Spaces: Quijong and Healing Nancy Chen, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Golden Age of Electrotherapy Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, University of California at Davis, USA VII. Tactile Technologies Tactile Technologies Constance Classen, Concordia University Modernist Fictions of Speed Sara Danius, Uppsala University, Sweden Make it Snuggle in the Palm: Commodification of Touch Roy Sheldon and Egmont Arens Grasping the Image: How Photographs are Handled Elizabeth Edwards, Pitt Rivers Museum Research Centre, University of Oxford Digital Touch Mark Paterson, University of the West of England Spacemaking: Experiences of a Virtual Body Susan Kozel, Simon Fraser University, Canada No affiliation: no institution, retired or deceased