The body reader
Subtitle: essential social and cultural readings
By: edited by Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780814795651; 9780814795668
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: not just the reflexive reflex: flesh and bone in the social sciences / Mary Kosut and Lisa Jean Moore; title: The body's problems with illness / Arthur Frank; title: Laboring now: current cultural constructions of pregnancy, birth, and mothering / Barbara Katz Rothman; title: Am I good enough for my family?: Fetal genetic bodies and prenatal genetic testing / Kristen Karlberg; title: Assume the position: the changing contours of sexual violence / Patricia Hill Collins; title: The phenomenology of death, embodiment, and organ transplantation / Gillian Haddow; title: Chemically reactive bodies, knowledge, and society / Steve Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd Jr.; title: "Made by the work": a century of laboring bodies in the United States / Ed Slavishak; title: Embodied capitalism and the meth economy / Jason Pine; title: Extreme bodies/extreme culture / Mary Kosut; title: The racial nose / Sander L. Gilman; title: To die for: the semiotic seductive power of the tanned body / Phillip Vannini and Aaron M. McCright; title: The naked self: being a body in televideo cybersex / Dennis D. Waskul; title: Manscaping: the tangle of nature, culture, and male body hair / Matthew Immergut; title: Incongruent bodies: teaching while leaking / Lisa Jean Moore; title: Envisioning the body in relation: finding sex, changing sex / Eric Plemons; title: Scars / Jarvis Jay Masters; title: Slippery slopes: media, disability, and adaptive sports / William J. Peace; title: Hey girl, am I more than my hair? African American women and their struggles with beauty, body image, and hair / Tracey Owens Patton; title: Fighting abjection: representing fat women / Le'a Kent; title: Images of addiction: the representation of illicit drug use in popular media / Richard Huggins; title: The Ana sanctuary: women's pro-anorexic narratives in cyberspace / Karen Dias.