ISBN:
9780415699297
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (709 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Body Studies : An Introduction
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students.Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. Its clear, accessible chapters explore, among other things:the measurement and classification of the human bodyillness and healingthe racialized bodyth
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Part I: Understanding the Body from a Social and Cultural Perspective; 1. Introduction: Theorizing the Body; An introduction to body studies; Interesting issues: born this way blog; Embodiment; Interesting issues: apotemnophilia; Inscribing the social order; Theorizing the female body; Counter-inscription; Key terms; Further reading; Part II: The Scientific and Biomedical Body; 2. Healthy and Diseased Bodies; The social construction of health and illness; Interesting issues: schizophrenia in Ireland
Description / Table of Contents:
Culturally specific illnesses and conditionsDisability 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; The culture of youth; Interesting issues: the cougar; Problems facing the elderly; Age norms; Interesting issues: Helen Mirren's bikini; Experiences of aging; The aging prison population; Key terms; Further reading; 4. Reproducing Bodies
Description / Table of Contents:
Menstruation, fertility, and menopauseContraception, 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Other methods of disposing of the deadInteresting isssues: Georgia Tri-State Crematory scandal; Key terms; Further reading; Part III: Mapping Difference onto Bodies; 6. Racialized and Colonized Bodies; What is race?; Interesting issues: the shooting of Trayvon Martin; Colonialism and the emergence of race; The 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; The animalization of non-white bodies; Key terms; Further reading; 7. Gendered Bodies; The gendered body
Description / Table of Contents:
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; The 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Gay, straight, bi, and ?: a diversity of sexualities
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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