An edition of The body reader (2010)

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Lisa Jean Moore
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Cover of: The body reader
The body reader: essential social and cultural readings
2010, New York University Press
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The body reader: essential social and cultural readings
2010, New York University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: not just the reflexive reflex: flesh and bone in the social sciences / Mary Kosut and 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 and 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 and 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4
Library of Congress
HM636 .B653 2010, HM636.B653 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 419 p. :
Number of pages
419

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24547151M
ISBN 10
081479565X, 0814795668
ISBN 13
9780814795651, 9780814795668
LCCN
2009035181
OCLC/WorldCat
326466230

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