Author

Publication

2015 - University of Pennsylvania Press

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780812247237
  • ISBN-10081224723X
  • AmazonB012Z3MQTC
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015016277
  • OCLC Control Number907193859
and 3 more
  • Better World Books9780812247237
  • Better World BooksP8-CNN-532
  • Open LibraryOL28807619M

Classifications

  • LCCBS1237.M56 2016
  • LCCBS1237 .M56 2016

Description

Introduction : creating paradise -- ch. 1. The body in Eden. Creating bodies ; Bodily functions ; The pleasures of paradise ; Being fruitful and multiplying ; The children of Eden ; What Adam knew ; Creating souls ; Eden as human habitat -- ch. 2. Power in paradise. Dominion over the animals ; Domestic dominion : the origins of economics ; Power and gender ; Unequal men : the origins of politics ; Power and possession : the origins of ownership ; The insubordinate fall -- ch. 3. Death and the paradise beyond. The death of the animal ; The body returns ; Representing paradise : from Eden to the patria ; Perfecting children's bodies ; Rewarding inequality ; Negotiating the material ; Resurrecting the senses ; Somewhere over the rainbow -- Coda : between paradises.

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