Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. This book provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of teaching and learning: ethnographic case studies, boxes covering contemporary controversies, news stories, and legislative issues, as well as chapter summaries, further reading recommendations and key terms.
Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. This book provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of teaching and learning: ethnographic case studies, boxes covering contemporary controversies, news stories, and legislative issues, as well as chapter summaries, further reading recommendations and key terms.
Margo DeMello is a Lecturer in the Department of Communications, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Central New Mexico Community College. Her books include Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, Encyclopedia of Body Adornment, Feet and Footwear, and Faces Around the World.
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Part I: Understanding the Body from a Social and Cultural Perspective 1. Introduction: Theorizing the Body Part II: The Scientific and Biomedical Body 2. Healthy and Diseased Bodies 3. Aging Bodies 4. Reproducing Bodies 5. Dead Bodies Part III: Mapping Difference onto Bodies 6. Racialized and Colonized Bodies 7. Gendered Bodies 8. Sexualized Bodies 9. Classed Bodies Part IV: Bodies and Privilege 10. Beautiful Bodies 11. Fat and Thin Bodies Part V: Extraordinary Bodies 12. Modified Bodies 13. Religious Bodies Part VI: State and Corporate Regulation of the Body 14. Tortured, Punished and Convict Bodies 15. Commodified Bodies 16. Animal Bodies Part VII: Bodies of the Future 17. Conclusion: Bodies of the Future. Bibliography
Part I: Understanding the Body from a Social and Cultural Perspective 1. Introduction: Theorizing the Body Part II: The Scientific and Biomedical Body 2. Healthy and Diseased Bodies 3. Aging Bodies 4. Reproducing Bodies 5. Dead Bodies Part III: Mapping Difference onto Bodies 6. Racialized and Colonized Bodies 7. Gendered Bodies 8. Sexualized Bodies 9. Classed Bodies Part IV: Bodies and Privilege 10. Beautiful Bodies 11. Fat and Thin Bodies Part V: Extraordinary Bodies 12. Modified Bodies 13. Religious Bodies Part VI: State and Corporate Regulation of the Body 14. Tortured, Punished and Convict Bodies 15. Commodified Bodies 16. Animal Bodies Part VII: Bodies of the Future 17. Conclusion: Bodies of the Future. Bibliography
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