Embodied resistance : challenging the norms, breaking the rules /

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Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary "body outlaws"--People from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden. This collection ventures beyond the conventional focus on the "disciplined body...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bobel, Chris, 1963-, Kwan, Samantha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Mind and body.
Manners and customs.
Women > Psychology.
Cultural Characteristics
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Mœurs et coutumes.
Femmes > Psychologie.
customs (social concepts)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Human body > Social aspects
Manners and customs
Mind and body
Women > Psychology
Människokroppen > sociala aspekter.
Kvinnor > psykologi.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The specter of excess : race, class, and gender in women's body / Breanne Fahs and Denise A. Delgado
  • "Is that any way to treat a lady?" : the dominatrix's dungeon / Danielle J. Lindemann
  • "Cruisin' for a bruisin'" : women's flat track roller derby / Natalie M. Peluso
  • Becoming a female-to-male transgender (FTM) in South Korea / Tari Youngjung Na and Hae Yeon Choo
  • Challenging marginalization
  • "Give me a boa and some bling!" : red hat society members commanding
  • Visibility in the public sphere / M. Elise Radina, Lydia K. Manning, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Annette Lynch
  • Fat. Hairy. Sexy : contesting standards of beauty and sexuality in the gay community / Nathaniel C. Pyle and Noa Logan Klein
  • Belly dancing mommas : challenging cultural discourses of maternity / Angela M. Moe
  • "It's important to show your colors" : counter-heteronormativity in a metropolitan community church / J. Edward Sumerau and Douglas P. Schrock
  • Defying authoritative knowledges and conventional wisdom
  • Anorexia as a choice : constructing a new community of health and beauty through pro-Ana websites / Abigail Richardson and Elizabeth Cherry
  • Public mothers and private practices : breastfeeding as transgression / Jennifer A. Reich
  • "It's hard to say" : moving beyond the mystery of female genital pain / Christine Labuski
  • "What I had to do to survive" : self-injurers' bodily emotion work / Margaret Leaf and Douglas P. Schrock
  • Negotiating boundaries and meanings
  • The politics of the stall : transgender and genderqueer workers negotiating "the bathroom question" / Catherine Connell
  • The everyday resistance of vegetarianism / Samantha Kwan and Louise Marie Roth
  • Menopausal and misbehaving : when women "flash" in front of others / Heather E. Dillaway
  • The transformation of bodily practices among religious defectors / Lynn Davidman.

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