The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Boero, Natalie; Mason, Katherine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In popular debates over the influences of nature versus culture on human lives, bodies are often assigned to the category of "nature": biological, essential, and pre-social. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges that view, arguing that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The volume is divided into three main parts: Bodies and Methodology; Marginalized Bodies; and Embodied Sociology. Sociologists contributing to the first two parts focus on the body and the ways it is given meaning, regulated, and subjected to legal and medical oversight in a variety of social contexts (particularly when the body in question violates norms for how a culture believes bodies "ought" to behave or appear). Sociologists contributing to the last part use the bodily as a lens through which to study social institutions and experiences. These social settings range from personal decisions about medical treatment to programs for teaching police recruits how to use physical force, from social movement tactics to countries' understandings of race and national identity. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Body also prioritizes empirical evidence and methodological rigor, attending to the ways particular lives are lived in particular physical bodies located within particular cultural and institutional contexts. Many chapters offer extended methodological reflections, providing guidance on how to conduct sociological research on the body and, at times, acknowledging the role the authors' own bodies play in developing their knowledge of the research subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190842499
• Artikelnr.: 60472950

Autorenporträt

Natalie Boero is a professor of Sociology at San Jose State University. Her work focuses on body size, healthcare inequalities, and qualitative methodology. Her current research focuses on illness narratives of dialysis patients with end-stage renal disease. Her work has appeared in Body and Society, Qualitative Sociology, and Fat Studies. She is the author of Killer Fat (2012). Katherine Mason is an assistant professor of Sociology and Women's & Gender Studies at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). She researches health and body inequalities, focusing on how people's care and cultivation of their bodies serves as a vector for the reproduction of social stratification. Her work has appeared in Social Problems, Fat Studies, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction: Toward a Sociology of the Body
* Katherine Mason and Natalie Boero
* 2. Methodologies for Categories in Motion
* Maxine Leeds Craig
* 3. Pregnant Embodiment and Field Research
* Jennifer Randles
* 4. Sensory Experience and Method
* Kelvin E.Y. Low and Noorman Abdullah
* 5. Mixed Methods in Body and Embodiment Research
* Samantha Kwan and Trenton M. Haltom
* 6. YouTube Vlogs as Illness Narratives: Methodological Consideration
* Natalie Kay Fullenkamp and Kristin Barker
* 7. Representations of Fatness by Experts and the Media and How This
Shapes Attitudes
* Abigail C. Saguy
* 8. Health at Every Size (HAES(TM)) as a Reform (Social) Movement
within Public Health: A Situational Analysis
* Natalie Ingraham
* 9. Fat as a Floating Signifier: Race, Weight, and Femininity in the
National Imaginary
* Sabrina Strings
* 10. Animal, Mechanical and Me: Organ Transplantation and the
Ambiguity of Embodiment
* Gillian Haddow
* 11. Aging, Gender, and the Body
* Laura Hurd Clarke
* 12. Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology
* Cary Gabriel Costello
* 13. Male Breast Cancer in the Public Imagination
* Piper Sledge
* 14. The Labor of Consumption -or- What Does It Take to Make Men
Beautiful?
* Kristen Barber
* 15. Feeding and Fasting Bodies
* Jaita Talukdar
* 16. Contrasting Scientific Discourses of Skin Lightening in Domestic
and Global Contexts
* Celeste Vaughan Curington and Miliann Kang
* 17. Unruly Bodies: Figurative Violence and The State's Responses to
The Black Panther Party
* Randolph Hohle
* 18. Race, Phenotype, and Nationality in Brazil and the United States
* Tiffany D. Joseph
* 19. The Aesthetic Labor of Ethnographers
* Kjerstin Gruys and David J. Hutson
* 20. Bodies That Don't Matter, But Labor That Does: The Low Wage Male
Migrant in Singapore and Dubai
* Laavanya Kathiravelu
* 21. Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care
* Elise Paradis, Warren Liew, and Myles Leslie
* 22. Contesting New Markets for Bodily Knowledge: When and How Experts
Draw the Line
* Rene Almeling
* 23. Managing Risky Bodies: From Pregnancy to Vaccination
* Jennifer A. Reich
* 24. The Artificial Pancreas in Cyborg Bodies
* Anthony Ryan Hatch, Julia T. Gordon, and Sonya R. Sternlieb
* 25. Contesting Lyme Disease
* Sonny Nordmarken
* 26. "Laying Hands" and Learning to Touch and Grab in the Police
Academy
* Brian Lande
* 27. The Place of the Body in Resistance to Intimate Partner Violence:
What Do We Know?
* Valli Rajah and Meg Osborn