Body studies : an Introduction /: an Introduction. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margo DeMello.
• Other Names: DeMello, Margo
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Part I: Understanding the Body from a Social and Cultural Perspective; 1. Introduction: Theorizing the Body; An introduction to body studies; Interesting issues: born this way blog; Embodiment; Interesting issues: apotemnophilia; Inscribing the social order; Theorizing the female body; Counter-inscription; Key terms; Further reading; Part II: The Scientific and Biomedical Body; 2. Healthy and Diseased Bodies; The social construction of health and illness; Interesting issues: schizophrenia in Ireland. Culturally specific illnesses and conditionsDisability and the normative body; Freaks, monsters, and freak shows; Gender, morbidity, and mortality; HIV/AIDS: a bodily, social, and cultural phenomenon; Class matters: illness and inequality; Interesting issues: man robs bank to get health care; Key terms; Further reading; 3. Aging Bodies; How we age; The culture of youth; Interesting issues: the cougar; Problems facing the elderly; Age norms; Interesting issues: Helen Mirren's bikini; Experiences of aging; The aging prison population; Key terms; Further reading; 4. Reproducing Bodies. Menstruation, fertility, and menopauseContraception, abortion, and reproductive rights; Interesting issues: project prevention; Population control, race, and the loss of women's choice; Interesting issues: China's one child policy; Pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation; Assisted reproductive technologies; Prenatal testing and the threat of the designer baby; Key terms; Further reading; 5. Dead Bodies; How and where people die; Organized death; Interesting issues: the killing fields of Cambodia; How do we know when we're dead?; Treating the dead; Burial rites. Other methods of disposing of the deadInteresting isssues: Georgia Tri-State Crematory scandal; Key terms; Further reading; Part III: Mapping Difference onto Bodies; 6. Racialized and Colonized Bodies; What is race?; Interesting issues: the shooting of Trayvon Martin; Colonialism and the emergence of race; The display and eroticization of racialized bodies; Interesting issues: good hair; Mapping and measuring bodies in the era of biological racism; Race, health, and race purity; The animalization of non-white bodies; Key terms; Further reading; 7. Gendered Bodies; The gendered body. Men are instrumental women are ornamental; Interesting issues: the removal of Hillary Clinton from the Situation Room photo; Becoming male or female: circumcision and clitoridectomy; Hair matters; Women's bodies: smaller is better; Interesting issues: pens for women; The problematic male body; Male and female: transgendered bodies; Key terms; Further reading; 8. Sexualized Bodies; How sex is produced; Intersexuality: are there just two sexes?; Changing sex: transsexuality; Male and female sexualities; Interesting issues: Toddlers & Tiaras and the sexualization of little girls.
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (709 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4; Human body; Human Body; Body Image; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Human body; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134084708; 1134084706; 9781134084630; 1134084633
• Related ISBNs: 9780415699297; 0415699290
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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