Helena de Bres
Search for other papers by Helena de Bres in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Close
What Are You For?
Abstract only
Log-in for full text

Twins have been used in many times and places for intellectual purposes, as tools to think with. In art and myth, they’re employed as symbols of duality, wholeness, trickiness, creativity, social conflict, and perfect or pathological love, and as ways to explore distinctions between self and other, mind and body, male and female, and similarity and difference, period. In science, twins are central to behavioral genetics and clinical medical trials. Singletons also use twins, or at least the idea of twins, for more emotional purposes. Twins are also objects of desire within the entertainment industry and the consumer market more broadly. Across Britain, Europe, and America, conjoined twins were exhibited at fairs, circuses, theaters, and museums as “living curiosities,” alongside mutant animals, fat women, non-Westerners, intersex people, and those with unusual heights, prominent breasts and asses, or simply a lot of hair.

  • Collapse
  • Expand

All of MUP's digital content including Open Access books and journals is now available on manchesterhive.

 

How to Be Multiple

The Philosophy of Twins

Metrics

All Time Past Year Past 30 Days
Abstract Views 281 281 3
Full Text Views 0 0 0
PDF Downloads 0 0 0