The book of touch

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Fingerprints: Writing About Touch -- Part I: Contact -- Contact -- Handshakes -- 1 Tactile Communication -- The Social Kiss -- 2 Skinscapes: Embodiment, Culture and Environment -- Touch in the Classroom -- 3 Handling Children: To Touch or Not to Touch? -- The Quiet Flow of Touch -- 4 The American Touch: Tactile Imagery in American Religion and Politics -- Part II: Pleasure -- Pleasure -- I Want to Hold Your Hand -- 5 The Pleasures of Touch -- Thermal Delight -- 6 Homely Pleasures: The Pursuit of Comfort in the Eighteenth Century -- Scratching Where It Itches -- 7 Bourgeois Love: Mabel Loomis Todd -- The Caress -- 8 Desiring Touch in Sartre and Beauvoir -- The Touch of God -- Part III: Pain -- Pain -- Speaking of Pain -- 9 The Language of Pain in India -- Headaches -- 10 The Tortures of the Inquisition and the Invention of Modern Guilt -- Stoicism -- 11 Primate Experiments: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love -- The Pangs of Rejection -- 12 Sex, Pain and the Marquis de Sade -- Part IV: Male Bonding -- Male Bonding -- Threads of Manly Friendship -- 13 The Men's House: Touching and Wrestling among Mehinaku Men -- Handymen -- 14 The Imperial Touch: Schooling Male Bodies in Colonial India, Part I -- 15 The Imperial Touch: Schooling Male Bodies in Colonial India, Part II -- School of Hard Knocks -- 16 Sexuality and the Drill: The Body Reconstructed in the Military Academy -- Warrior Love -- 17 The Dying Kiss: Intimacy and Gender in the Trenches of the First World War -- A Hard Man is Good to Find -- Part V: Women's Touch -- Women's Touch -- Women's Work -- 18 Saarak's Crisis: Childbirth and Weaning in an Inuit Community -- Binding Women in China -- 19 Nu Shu: Female Writing in China.

Fingerprints : writing about touch / Constance Classen -- Contact / Constance Classen -- Handshakes -- Tactile communication / Ruth Finnegan -- The social kiss -- Skinscapes : embodiment, culture and environment / David Howes -- Touch in the classroom -- Handling children : to touch or not to touch? / Anthony Synnott -- The quiet flow of touch -- The American touch : tactile imagery in American religion and politics / David Chidester -- Pleasure / Constance Classen -- I want to hold your hand -- The pleasures of touch / Yi Fu Tuan -- Thermal delight -- Homely pleasures : the pursuit of comfort in the eighteenth century / John E. Crowley -- Scratching where it itches -- Bourgeois love : Mabel Loomis Todd / Peter Gay -- The caress -- Desiring touch in Sartre and Beauvoir / Penelope Deutscher -- The touch of God -- Pain / Constance Classen -- Speaking of pain -- The language of pain in India / Judy Pugh -- Headaches -- The tortures of the Inquisition and the invention of modern guilt / Ariel Glucklich -- Stoicism -- Primate experiments : Harry Harlow and the technology of love / Donna Haraway -- The pangs of rejection -- Sex, pain and the Marquis de Sade / David B. Morris -- Male bonding / Constance Classen -- "Threads of manly friendship" -- The men's house : touching and wrestling among / Mehinaku men / Thomas Gregor -- Handymen -- The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part I / E.D. Tyndale-Biscoe -- The imperial touch : schooling male bodies in colonial India, part II / Satadru Sen -- School of hard knocks -- Sexuality and the drill : the body reconstructed in the military academy / Klaus Theweleit -- Warrior love -- The dying kiss : intimacy and gender in the trenches of the first work war / Santanu Das -- A hard man is good to find -- Women's touch / Constance Classen -- Women's work -- Feminine tactics : crafting an alternative esthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Constance Classen -- Binding women in China -- Nu shu : inscribing femininity in China / Wang Ping -- Saarak's crisis : childbirth and weaning among the inuit / Jean Briggs -- Throwing like a girl -- Seamstress and marketwoman : working women in twentieth-century Paris / Madeleine Henrey -- The mosaic makers / Karli Whitmore -- Warrior women -- Control / Constance Classen -- When can a man touch a woman? -- On medieval manners / Norbert Elias -- Don't touch the art -- Touch in the museum / Constance Classen -- Hands off -- Spouse beating -- In a victorian prison : privations of the flesh / Philip Priestley -- Untouchable -- Bourgeois perception : the gaze and the contaminating touch / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Security crises -- Uncommon touch / Constance Classen -- Fire in the mind -- Phantom touch in "The case of George Dedlow" / S. Weir Mitchell -- Still life -- Autism and "The squeeze machine" / Temple Grandin -- Pure touch -- Rainfall and the blind body / John Hull -- Balancing acts -- Tactilism / F.T. Marinetti -- What's going on in there? -- Visual perception / Drew Leder -- Nightmare touch -- Tactile therapies / Constance Classen -- Dr. Touch -- Magical healing : the king's touch / Keith Thomas -- Sweat baths -- Ayurvedic medicine and the history of massage / S.V. Govindan -- Breathing spaces : Qigong and healing / Nancy Chen -- The healing paw -- A touch of danger : the bedside manners of the eighteenth-century physician / Roy Porter -- Domesticating madwomen -- The golden age of electrotherapy / Caroline Thomas de la Peña -- The immune system -- Touch and technology / Constance Classen -- The mechanized body -- Polishing your heart / Dorinne Kondo -- Modernist fictions of speed / Sara Danius -- "Make it snuggle in the palm" : the commodification of touch / Roy Sheldon and Egmont Arens -- Nerve endings -- Grasping the image : when photographs are handled / Elizabeth Edwards -- The body retouched -- Digital touch / Mark Paterson -- Weaving a new world -- Spacemaking : experiences of a virtual body / Susan Kozel -- Virtual touch