| Description |
ix, 419 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Not just the reflexive reflex: flesh and bone in the social sciences / Mary Kosut, Lisa Jean Moore -- The body's problems with illness / Arthur Frank -- Laboring now: current cultural constructions of pregnancy, birth, and mothering / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Am I good enough for my family?: Fetal genetic bodies and prenatal genetic testing / Kristen Karlberg -- Assume the position: the changing contours of sexual violence / Patricia Hill Collins -- The phenomenology of death, embodiment, and organ transplantation / Gillian Haddow -- Chemically reactive bodies, knowledge, and society / Steve Kroll-Smith, H. Hugh Floyd Jr. -- "Made by the work": a century of laboring bodies in the United States / Ed Slavishak -- Embodied capitalism and the meth economy / Jason Pine -- Extreme bodies/extreme culture / Mary Kosut -- The racial nose / Sander L. Gilman -- To die for: the semiotic seductive power of the tanned body / Phillip Vannini, Aaron M. McCright -- The naked self: being a body in televideo cybersex / Dennis D. Waskul -- Manscaping: the tangle of nature, culture, and male body hair / Matthew Immergut -- Incongruent bodies: teaching while leaking / Lisa Jean Moore -- Envisioning the body in relation: finding sex, changing sex / Eric Plemons -- Scars / Jarvis Jay Masters -- Slippery slopes: media, disability, and adaptive sports / William J. Peace -- Hey girl, am I more than my hair? African American women and their struggles with beauty, body image, and hair / Tracey Owens Patton -- Fighting abjection: representing fat women / Le'a Kent -- Images of addiction: the representation of illicit drug use in popular media / Richard Huggins -- The Ana sanctuary: women's pro-anorexic narratives in cyberspace / Karen Dias. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-412) and index. |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Moore, Lisa Jean, 1967-
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Kosut, Mary.
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| ISBN |
9780814795651 (cl : alk. paper) |
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081479565X (cl : alk. paper) |
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9780814795668 (pb : alk. paper) |
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0814795668 (pb : alk. paper) |
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