The Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Images and Experience by Rebecca Coleman

Have read this summer.

“The term ‘the becoming of bodies’ refers to a conviction that bodies must be conceived as processes, which are constantly moving rather than discrete, autonomous entities… The difference between process and becoming that I point to and explore in this book designates a distinction between a notion of process which argues that bodies are constantly moving and are never complete(d) and a notion of becoming which argues that bodies are constantly in the process of enfolding… Taking of up this notion, this book argues that bodies cannot be understood as discrete, autonomous entities, not only because they are always in process but also because their movement is always through their relations in the world; bodies are not autonomous from the world.”