• ‘non-mainstream’ body modification (tattooing, piercing, scarification, branding, etc)
• body sculpting (corsetry, dieting, body-building, binding, constriction, negation, elongation, etc)
• performance art
• body politics;
• transformative rituals
• body modification in non-Western cultures and/or in other historical epochs
• transgender and/or transsexualism; intersex
• cosmetic surgery
• fatness; anorexia; eating
• technology and the body (cyborgs, nanotechnology, reproductive technologies, transplants, implants, cloning, ethics, etc)
• virtual bodies
• ‘self-mutilation’
• fashion
• illness; pain
• sadomasochism; fetishes; bodies and pleasures
• pregnant embodiment
• the racialization of the body; hybrid bodies
• monstrosity; the normalization of ‘deformed’ bodies
• ageing
• addiction
• reading/writing the body
• intercorporeality
• war; violence; torture; terrorism

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