Body studies : an introduction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	DeMello, Margo (Author)
Corporate Author:	Ebooks Corporation
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Human body. Human Body. Body Image.
Online Access:	Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Theorizing the Body
introduction to body studies
Interesting issues: born this way blog
Embodiment
Interesting issues: apotemnophilia
Inscribing the social order
Theorizing the female body
Counter-inscription i
Key terms
Further reading
2. Healthy and Diseased Bodies
social construction of health and illness
Interesting issues: schizophrenia in Ireland
Culturally specific illnesses and conditions
Disability and the normative body
Freaks, monsters, and freak shows
Gender, morbidity, and mortality
HIV/AIDS: a bodily, social, and cultural phenomenon
Class matters: illness and inequality
Interesting issues: man robs bank to get health care
Key terms
Further reading
3. Aging Bodies
How we age
culture of youth
Interesting issues: the cougar
Problems facing the elderly
Age norms
Interesting issues: Helen Mirren's bikini
Experiences of aging
aging prison population
Key terms
Further reading
4. Reproducing Bodies
Menstruation, fertility, and menopause
Contraception, abortion, and reproductive rights
Interesting issues: project prevention
Population control, race, and the loss of women's choice
Interesting issues: China's one child policy
Pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation
Assisted reproductive technologies
Prenatal testing and the threat of the designer baby
Key terms
Further reading
5. Dead Bodies
How and where people die
Organized death
Interesting issues: the killing fields of Cambodia
How do we know when we're dead?
Treating the dead
Burial rites
Other methods of disposing of the dead
Interesting issues: Georgia Tri-State Crematory scandal
Key terms
Further reading
6. Racialized and Colonized Bodies
What is race?
Interesting issues: the shooting of Trayvon Martin
Colonialism and the emergence of race
display and eroticization of racialized bodies
Interesting issues: good hair
Mapping and measuring bodies in the era of biological racism
Race, health, and race purity
animalization of non-white bodies
Key terms
Further reading
7. Gendered Bodies
gendered body
Men are instrumental; women are ornamental
Interesting issues: the removal of Hillary Clinton from the Situation Room photo
Becoming male or female: circumcision and clitoridectomy
Hair matters
Women's bodies: smaller is better
Interesting issues: pens for women
problematic male body
Male and female: transgendered bodies
Key terms
Further reading
8. Sexualized Bodies
How sex is produced
Intersexuality: are there just two sexes?
Changing sex: transsexuality
Male and female sexualities
Interesting issues: Toddlers & Tiaras and the sexualization of little girls
Gay, straight, bi, and ?: a diversity of sexualities
Body play, bondage, and fetishes
Sex as a weapon: rape and castration
Interesting issues: the Toronto Slut Walk
Key terms
Further reading
9. Classed Bodies
How does class shape the body?
Dirty jobs and clean jobs
Pink-collar bodies
Consumption, class, and the body
Adorning the classed body: sumptuary laws
Interesting issues: shoes and class
invisibility of poor bodies
Interesting issues: white trash
Key terms
Further reading
10. Beautiful Bodies
science of beauty
Interesting issues: the Golden Ratio
importance of female beauty
Beauty pays
Beautiful men
Racialized and classed standards of beauty
Interesting issues: ulzzang
Manufacturing beauty: cosmetic surgery
Key terms
Further reading
11. Fat and Thin Bodies
obesity epidemic
Interesting issues: the fat acceptance movement and fatshion blogs
drive to lose weight
Eating disorders
You need some meat on your bones: a preference for fat
Weight prejudice
Interesting issues: Lane Bryant ad: too fat for TV
Sugar, fast food, and the sweetening of the world's food
Key terms
Further reading
12. Modified Bodies
From raw to cooked
Body modification in traditional cultures
Body modification in states
Body modification today
Tattooing, gender, and sexuality
Interesting issues: Jean Carroll
Modern primitives and non-mainstream body modifications
Interesting issues: Spanner case
Subversive bodies
Key terms
Further reading
13. Religious Bodies
veil
Pollution and the female body
Interesting issues: the witch
Denying the body: fasting, abstinence, and self-mortification
Interesting issues: Christian weight loss programs
Religion and sex
body/soul division
Bodily practices
Spirit possession, stigmata, and resurrection: miracles of the faithful
Key terms
Further reading
14. Tortured, Punished, and Convict Bodies
Marking deviance: branding, castration, and tattooing
Interesting issues: Geneva Convention
Torture, rape, and other forms of corporal punishment
Capital punishment
rise of the prison and the confinement of criminals
Marks of deviance: identifying criminals
Interesting issues: mug shots
Key terms
Further reading
15. Commodified Bodies
Slavery and the ownership of people
Prostitution, sex trafficking, and sex tourism
Interesting issues: virginity for sale
Selling love: mail order brides
Interesting issues: romance tourism
Pornographic bodies
How much are bodies, and body parts, worth?
Who owns our bodies?
Key terms
Further reading
16. Animal Bodies
Human-animal kinship: evolutionary links
Interesting issues: human-animal transformation
Domestication and selective breeding: the creation of animal bodies
Altering the animal body
Bodily control
Interesting issues: the link between violence to animals and violence to humans
different kind of hybrid
Human-animal kinship: coming together
Key terms
Further reading
17. Conclusion: Bodies of the Future
Cyborg bodies
Virtual bodies
Hybrid bodies
Digital bodies
Key terms
Further reading.

Body studies : an introduction /

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