How Long to Read Bodies in the Making

How Long Does it Take to Read Bodies in the Making?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 44 minutes to read Bodies in the Making by Nancy N. Chen

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies. Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity. Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.

How long is Bodies in the Making?

Bodies in the Making by Nancy N. Chen is 218 pages long, and a total of 56,244 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Bodies in the Making Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 7 minutes to read Bodies in the Making aloud.

What Reading Level is Bodies in the Making?

Bodies in the Making is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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