How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings together contemporary and historical readings of the body, exploring the insights and limits of established and emerging theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a variety of German contexts. The engaging contributions to this volume utilize and challenge cutting-edge approaches to scholarship on the body by putting these approaches in direct conversation with canonical texts and objects, as well as with lesser-known yet provocative emerging forms. To these ends, the chapter authors investigate "the body" through detailed studies across a wide variety of disciplines and modes of expression: from advertising, aesthetics, and pornography, to social media, scientific experimentation, and transnational cultural forms. Thus, this volume showcases the ways in which the body as such cannot be taken for granted and surmises that the body continues to undergo constant--and potentially disruptive--diversification and transformation.

Applies contemporary ideas about difference and identity to a variety of real-world German contexts

1. Jennifer L. Creech and Thomas O. Haakenson, "Introduction: How to Make the Body"2. Alison Stewart, "Arousal, the Bible, and Bruegel's Codpieces: The Male Body in Early Modern Visual Culture"3. David Ciarlo, "The Construction of the Aryan Body in German Visual Advertising, 1908-33"4. Jill Holaday, "Die Gruppe Zero: Transforming Trauma to Transcendence"5.Ilka Rasch, "RAF Corpse Art: The Living Dead in the Work of Gerhard Richter, Ernst Volland, Astrid Proll and Andres Veiel"6. Sebastian Heiduschke, "Penis-bodied Specimen in the Exhibit Körperwelten ('Body Worlds')"7. Jennifer L. Creech, "For the Porn Connoisseur: Cinema Joy"8. Zachary Fitzpatrick, "Orientalized Bodies at Work: Cultural Zaniness in Berlin's Sayonara Tokyo Revue"9. Thomas O. Haakenson, "Ai Weiwei's Body in Berlin"10. Jamele Watkins, "Afrolocken: Natural Hair in German Literature and Media"11. Faye Stewart, "Poppthority: The Politics of Dr. Bitch Ray's Bodily Interventions"12. Lucy Ashton, "Becoming Invisible/ Against Visibility: Hito Steyerl's How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational. MOV File"