Sociology of the Body
A Reader
ISBN13: 9780195425482ISBN10: 0195425480
Paperback, 480 pages
May 2008,
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Working from a sociological perspective, Sociology of the Body: A Reader provides students with a broad overview of the theories of the body and substantive body issues.
Table of Contents
Part I: Tracing the Body in Classical and Contemporary Theory
1. The Body in Sociology, Chris Shilling
2. Bringing Bodies Back In: A Decade Review, Arthur W. Frank
3. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Lee Bartky
Part II: Bodies in Historical Context
4. From The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners, Norbert Elias
5. Body: Tomb, Temple, Machine, and Self, Anthony Synnott
6. The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality, Sander L. Gilman
Part III: Presenting the Body
7. 'Introduction' from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
8. Big Handsome Men, Bears, and Others: Virtual Constructions of 'Fat Male Embodiment,' Lee F. Monaghan
9. Nurturing and Negligence: Working on Others' Bodies in Fiji, Anne E. Becker
Part IV: Medical Social Control
10. Discipline and Dehumanization in a Total Institution: Institutional Survivors' Descriptions of Time-out Rooms, Claudia Malacrida
11. The Anthropological Born Criminal, Nicole Hahn Rafter
12. The Destruction of 'Lives Not Worth Living,' Robert N. Proctor
Part V: Gendered Bodies
13. From $acred to Disembodied Motherhood: Breast-feeding with the Experts and the State, Linda M. Blum
14. Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture, Susan Bordo
15. Men's Bodies, Raewyn Connell
Part VI: Transgressive Bodies
16. 'Introduction' from One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal, Alice Domurat Dreger
17. Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism, Cheryl Chase
18. Telling Body Transgendering Stories, Richard Ekins and Dave King
Part VII: Risky Bodies
19. The Risk of Resistance: Perspectives on the Mass Childhood Immunization Program, Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim
20. The Medical Model of the Body as Site of Risk: A Case Study of Childbirth, Karen Lane
21. Contemporary Hospice Care: The Sequestration of the Unbounded Body and 'Dirty Dying,' Julia Lawson
Part VIII: Reproductive Bodies
22. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles, Emily Martin
23. 'Fetal Rights': A New Assault on Feminism, Katha Pollitt
24. Bodies Out of Time: Women's Reproductive Firsts, Elizabeth Graham and Jacqueline Low
Part IX: Children's Bodies
25. Children's Lived Bodies in Everyday Life, Berry Mayall
26. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools, Karin A. Martin
27. The Gaze of the Psychologist, Nikolas Rose
Part X: Working Bodies
28. The Contented Worker, Nikolas Rose
29. Scrubbing in Maine, Barbara Ehrenreich
30. Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of Body Technologies, Jennifer K. Wesely
Part XI: Disabled Bodies
31. Somewhere a Mockingbird, Deborah Kent
32. Coming to Terms: Masculinity and Physical Disability, Thomas J. Gerschick and Adam S. Miller
33. (In)visibility: Accounts of Embodiment of Women with Physical Disabilities and Differences, Hilde Zitzelsberger
Part XII: Sporting Bodies
34. 'Holding Back': Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women's Muscular Strength, Shari L. Dworkin
35. Looking into Masculinity: Sport, Media, and the Construction of the Male Body Beautiful, Gay Mason
36. Sport, Genetics, and the 'Natural Athlete': The Resurgence of Racial Science, Brett St Louis
Part XIII: Racialized Bodies
37. Feared and Revered: Media Representations of Racialized and Gendered Bodies--A Case Study, Sarah Neal
38. The Future of Reproductive Choice for Poor Women and Women of Color, Dorothy E. Roberts
39. Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George, Sherene H. Razack
Part XIV: Consumer Bodies
40. 'Modern Primitivism': Non-mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation, Christian Klesse
41. Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power through Resistance and Accommodation, Rose Weitz
42. 'A Dubious Equality': Men, Women, and Cosmetic Surgery, Kathy Davis
Part XV: Aging Bodies
43. Meno-Boomers and Moral Guardians: An Exploration of the Cultural Construction of Menopause, Joy Webster Barbre
44. Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body, Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz
45. Aging, Alzheimer's, and the Uncivilized Body, Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs
Part XVI: Postmodern Bodies
46. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Donna Haraway
47. Cyberpunk, Biomedicine, and the High-tech Body, Victoria L. Pitts
48. The Sacrificial Body of Orlan, Julie Clarke
