Embodied resistance
Subtitle: challenging the norms, breaking the rules
By: edited by Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780826517869; 9780826517876
Subjects: Mind and body; Psychology; Social aspects; Manners and customs; Human body; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The specter of excess : race, class, and gender in women's body / Breanne Fahs and Denise A. Delgado; title: "Is that any way to treat a lady?" : the dominatrix's dungeon / Danielle J. Lindemann; title: "Cruisin' for a bruisin'" : women's flat track roller derby / Natalie M. Peluso; title: Becoming a female-to-male transgender (FTM) in South Korea / Tari Youngjung Na and Hae Yeon Choo; title: Challenging marginalization; title: "Give me a boa and some bling!" : red hat society members commanding; title: Visibility in the public sphere / M. Elise Radina, Lydia K. Manning, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Annette Lynch; title: Fat. Hairy. Sexy : contesting standards of beauty and sexuality in the gay community / Nathaniel C. Pyle and Noa Logan Klein; title: Belly dancing mommas : challenging cultural discourses of maternity / Angela M. Moe; title: "It's important to show your colors" : counter-heteronormativity in a metropolitan community church / J. Edward Sumerau and Douglas P. Schrock; title: Defying authoritative knowledges and conventional wisdom; title: Anorexia as a choice : constructing a new community of health and beauty through pro-Ana websites / Abigail Richardson and Elizabeth Cherry; title: Public mothers and private practices : breastfeeding as transgression / Jennifer A. Reich; title: "It's hard to say" : moving beyond the mystery of female genital pain / Christine Labuski; title: "What I had to do to survive" : self-injurers' bodily emotion work / Margaret Leaf and Douglas P. Schrock; title: Negotiating boundaries and meanings; title: The politics of the stall : transgender and genderqueer workers negotiating "the bathroom question" / Catherine Connell; title: The everyday resistance of vegetarianism / Samantha Kwan and Louise Marie Roth; title: Menopausal and misbehaving : when women "flash" in front of others / Heather E. Dillaway; title: The transformation of bodily practices among religious defectors / Lynn Davidman.