Self-Alteration
Houston, Christopher / Baldacchino, Jean-Paul
Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Cultures approaches the subject of the self and its becoming through the exploration of modes of its transformation, including through religious and spiritual traditions and innovations, embodied participation in therepeutic prorams like psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and through political activism or relationships with animals. The essays in this collection show that both minor ...