Sociology of the body : a reader - Low, Jacqueline, 1964-; Malacrida, Claudia, 1953-; Oxford University Press (Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2008)
Introduction Claudia Malacrida and Jacqueline Low Part 1: Tracing the Boy in Classical and Contemporary Theory The Body in Sociology Chris Shilling Bringing Bodies Back In: A Decade Review Arthur W. Frank Foucault, Femininity, the Modernization of Patriarchal Power Sandra Lee Bartky Part 2: Bodies in History The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality Sander Gilman Tomb, Temple, Machine, Self A. Synnott The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners Norbert Elias Part 3: Presenting the Body The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Erving Goffman Big Handsome Men, Bears, Others: Virtual Constructions of "Fat Male Embodiment" Lee F. Monaghan Beauty and Body Modification Martin Donohoe Part 4: Medical Social Control Discipline and Dehumanization in a Total Institution: Institutional Survivors' Descriptions of Time-Out Rooms Claudia Malacrida The Anthropological Born Criminal Nicole Hahn Rafter The Destruction of "lives not worth living" R. N. Proctor Part 5: Women's Bodies From Sacred to Disembodied Motherhood: Breastfeeding with the Experts and the State Linda Blum Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture Susan Bordo Modelling Femininity Patricia Soley-Beltran Part 6: Men's Bodies Men's Bodies Bob Connell Does Size Matter? Susan Bordo Male Body Building and the Reassertion of Hegemonic Masculinity: A Critical Feminist Perspective J. Gillett and P. G. White Part 7: Transgressive Bodies Introduction from One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal Alice Dreger Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism Cheryl Chase Telling Body Transgendering Stories R. Ekins and D. King Part 8: Risky Bodies The Risk of Resistance: Perspectives on the Mass Childhood Immunization Programme A. Rogers and D. Pilgrim The Medical Model of the Body as Site of Risk: A Case Study of Childbirth Karen Lane Contemporary Hospice Care: The Sequestration of the Unbounded Body and "Dirty Dying" J. Lawson Part 9: Reproductive Bodies The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles Emily Martin "Fetal Rights": A New Assault on Feminism Katha Pollitt Bodies Out of Time: Women's Reproductive Firsts Elizabeth Graham and Jacqueline Low Part 10: Children's, Young People's Bodies Children's Lived Bodies in Everyday Life Berry Mayall Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools Karin A. Martin The Gaze of the Psychologist Nikolas Rose Part 11: Working Bodies The Contented Worker Nikolas Rose Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of Body Technologies Jennifer K. Weseley Scrubbing In Maine Barbara Ehrenreich Part 12: Disabled Bodies Somewhere a Mockingbird Deborah Kent Coming to Terms: Masculinity and Physical Disability T. J. Gerschick and A. S. Miller (In)visibility: Accounts of Embodiment of Women with Physical Disabilities and Differences Hilde Zitzelsberger Part 13: Sporting Bodies Holding Back: Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women's Muscular Strength Shari L. Dworkin Looking into Masculinity: Sport, Media, the Construction of the Male Body Beautiful Gay Mason Sport, Genetics, the "Natural Athlete" Brett St. Louis Part 14: Radicalized Bodies Featured and Revered: Media Representations of Racialized and Gendered Bodies - A Case Study S. Neal The Future of Reproductive Choice for Poor Women and Women of Color Dorothy Roberts Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George Sherene H. Razack Part 15: Consumer Bodies (Expression/Resistance of Capitulation?) "Modern Primitivism": Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation Christian Klesse Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power Through Resistance and Accommodation Rose Weitz A Dubious Equality: Men, Women and Cosmetic Surgery K. Davis Part 16: Aging Bodies Ageing, Alzheimer's and the Uncivilized Body C. Gilleard and P. Higgs Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Ageing Male Body Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz Meno-Boomers and Moral Guardians: An Exploration of the Cultural Construction of Menopause Joy Webster Barbre Part 17: Postmodern Bodies A Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway The Sacrificial Body of Orlan Julie Clark
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Human body -- Social aspects; Body image -- Social aspects; Health -- Social aspects