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Contents Acknowledgments Fingerprints: Writing About Touch Constance Classen

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Part I:

Constance Classen Handshakes 1

The Sodal Kiss

Touch in the Classroom

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Handling Children: To Touch or Not to Touch?

Anthony Synnott The Quiet Flow of Touch 4

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Skinscapes: Embodiment, Culture and Environment

David Howes

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Tacti1e Communication

Ruth Finnegan

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The American Touch: Tactile Imagery in American Religion and Politics

David Chidester

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Part II: Pleasure Pleasure

Constance Classen I Want to Hold Your Hand

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The Pleasures of Touch Yi-Fu Tuan Therrnal Delight

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Hornely Pleasures: The Pursuit of Cornfort in the Eighteenth Century John E. Crowley Scratching Where lt ltches

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Bourgeois Love: Mabel Loornis Todd Peter Gay The Caress

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Desiring Touch in Sartre and Beauvoir Penelope Deutscher The Touch of God

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82 92 93 101 102 106

Part III: Pain Pain Constance Classen Speaking of Pain 9

The Language of Pain in India Judy Pugh Headaches

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The Tortures of the Inquisition and the Invention of Modem Guilt Ariel Glucklich Stoici srn

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Prirnate Experirnents: Harry Harlow and the Technology ofLove Donna Haraway The Pangs of Rejection

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Sex, Pain and the Marquis de Sade David B. Morris

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Part IV: Male Bonding

Male Bonding Constance Classen

"Threads of Manly Friendship" 13

Handymen

School of Hard Knocks

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The Imperial Touch: Schooling Male Bodies in Colonial India, Part II Satadru Sen

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The Imperial Touch: Schooling Male Bodies in Colonial India, Part I C.E. Tyndale-Biscoe

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The Men's House: Touching and Wrestling among Mehinaku Men Thomas Gregor

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171 177

Sexuality and the Drill: The Body Reconstructed in the Military Academy Klaus Theweleit

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Warrior Love

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The Dying Kiss: Intimacy and Gender in the Trenches of the First World War Santanu Das

A Hard Man is Good to Find

188 198

Part V: Women's Touch

Women's Touch Constance Classen

Women's Work 18

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Saarak's Crisis: Childbirth and Weaning in an Inuit Community Jean Briggs

Binding Women in China 19

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Nu Shu: Female Writing in China WangPing

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Feminine Tactics: Crafting an Alternative Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Constance Classen Throwing Like a Girl 21

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Seamstress and Marketwoman: Working Women in Early Twentieth-century Paris

Madeleine Henrey

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The Mosaic Makers Karli Whitmore

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Warrior Women

254

Part VI: Control Control Constance Classen When Can a Man Touch a Woman? 23

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Don't Touch the Art!

273

Touch in the Museum

275

Hands Off!

287

Spouse Beating

288

Bourgeois Perception: The Gaze and the Contaminating Touch

Peter Stallybrass and Allon White Untouchable 26

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On Medieval Manners Norbert Elias

Constance Classen

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ln a Victorian Prison: Privations of the Flesh Philip Priestley Security Crises

289 292 294 301

Part VII: Uncommon Touch Uncommon Touch Constance Classen Fire in the Mind

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Phantom Toueh in "The Case of George Dedlow" S. Weir Mitchell Still Life

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Autism and "The Squeeze Maehine" Temple Grandin Pure Toueh

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Rainfall and the Blind Body John Huli Balancing Acts

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Taetilism F. T. Marinetti Whaťs

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Going On In There?

Viseeral Pereeption Drew Leder Nightmare Toueh

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311 317 318 322 324 328 329 333 335 342

Part VIII: Tactile Therapies Taetile Therapies Constance Classen

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Dr Toueh

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Magical Healing: The King's Toueh Keith Thomas Sweat Baths

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Ayurvedic Medicine and the History of Massage S. V. Govindan

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Breathing Spaees: Qigong and Healing Nancy N. Chen

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The Healing Paw 35

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A Toueh of Danger: The Bedside Manners of the Eighteenth-eentury Physician Roy Porter Domestieating Madwomen

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The Golden Age of Electrotherapy Caroline Thomas de la Peňa

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The Immune System

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Part IX: Touch and Technology

Touch and Technology Constance Classen

The Mechanized Body 37

Nerve Endings

The Body Retouched

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426 429

Digital Touch Mark Paterson

Weaving a New World 42

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"Make it Snuggle in the Palm:" The Commodification ofTouch Roy Sheldon and Egmont Arens

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Grasping the Image: How Photographs are Handled Elizabeth Edwards

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Modernist Fictions of Speed Sara Danius

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Polishing Your Heart: Artisans and Machines in Japan Dorinne Kondo

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431 437

Spacemaking: Experiences of a Virtual Body Susan Kozel

Virtual Touch

439 447

Copyright Acknowledgments

448

Index

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