Re-Thinking the (Post-)Socialist Body

Changing beauty ideals, technological enhancement, and abortion restrictions have made the body once again a central object of concern. This volume revisits the (post-)socialist body in East-Central European art and visual culture, bringing together perspectives from the Baltics to Yugoslavia across theoretical, geographical, and disciplinary boundaries. Against contemporary debates on bodily autonomy, labor, and the return of war, the contributors examine the body as both a site of struggle and a subject whose meanings and representations are continually reassessed. Together, these perspectives open up new ways of understanding the body through its temporal, phenomenological, aesthetic, ethical, and political multiplicity.