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The body politic is a polity—such as a city, realm, or state—considered metaphorically as a physical body. Historically, the sovereign is typically portrayed as the body's head, and the analogy may also be extended to other anatomical parts, as in political readings of Aesop 's fable of " The Belly and the Members ".
body politic, in Western political thought, an ancient metaphor by which a state, society, or church and its institutions are conceived of as a biological (usually human) body.
- Joëlle Rollo-Koster
The Body Politic was a queer, activism-based Canadian monthly magazine that published from 1971 to 1987. It was one of the first significant gay publications in Canada, and played a large role in amplifying the Gay Liberation Movement and creating a space for queer issues and voices to be heard.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Troubling eugenicist ideas appeared alongside calls for liberty and equality in the works of Enlightenment thinkers. In 18th-century Europe, scholars and political theorists produced reams of texts advocating “toleration, equality, liberty, cosmopolitanism, and natural rights” alongside works defining hierarchical categories ...
20 de jun. de 2024 · 1. An ideological struggle between individuals, groups, and social institutions over control of the human body.2. Institutionalized social practices and policies through which the human body is regulated.3.
from rape victims to argue that rape is "hatred . . . spoken by one body into the other" (20), these nimble and passionate essayists make their arguments by combining theoretical analysis with historical, biographical, or political data.
This chapter takes an indepth look at John’s famous metaphor of the body politic. After comparing his model to those of his contemporaries, it notes that John takes the metaphor a step further by exploiting its physiology to suit his political theory.
