Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules
"The book is a good start to a more nuanced understanding of the interconnections between complicity and transgression."--Contemporary Sociology"This anthology captures the urgency of the body's involvement with power relations. It reminds us of the significant and sometimes high stakes of negotiating embodiment and identity, embodiment and sexuality, race, gender. Bobel and Kwan situate the wide range of articles in the most current literatures in critical scholarship, and remind us why the body has become such an important place of scholarship, why it carries so much meaning and instigates so much struggle."--Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and author ofSurgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic CultureandIn the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification"Finally, here is a book about the body that is as juicy, colorful, and unpredictable as the body itself.Embodied Resistanceis not only about resistance but as a collection vibrates with its own resistance,  both to academic abstractions about 'the body' and to uncritical storytelling.  A wonderful blend of ethnographic research and personal reflections, it toes no one theoretical line and embraces a fascinating range of practices, issues, and experiences. This is a book students will identify with, argue with, shed tears over, laugh along with, and rarest of all for a scholarly reader, enjoy curling up with."--Susan Bordo, author ofUnbearable WeightandThe Male Body