Body battlegrounds : transgressions, tensions, and transformations

Body battlegrounds : transgressions, tensions, and transformations / edited by Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan.

The complex lives of society's body outlaws and their acts of resistance.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bobel, Chris, 1963- (Editor), Kwan, Samantha (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Women > Psychology.
Sexual minorities > Psychology.
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
Women > Psychology
LGBTQ people.
Queer people.
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Table of Contents:
  • Body hair battlegrounds: the consequences, reverberations, and promises of women growing their leg, pubic, and underarm hair
  • Radical doulas, childbirth activism, and the politics of embodiment
  • Caring for the corpse: embodied transgression and transformation in home funeral advocacy
  • Living resistance: Deconstructing reconstructing: Challenging medical advice following mastectomy
  • Living resistance: My ten-year dreadlock journey: Why I love the 'kink' in my hair ... today
  • Living resistance: Living my full life: Rejecting weight loss as an imperative for recovery from binge eating disorder
  • Living resistance: Pretty brown: Encounters with my skin color
  • Blood as resistance: Photography as contemporary menstrual activism
  • Am I pretty enough for you yet? Resistance through parody in the pretty or ugly YouTube trend
  • The infidel in the mirror: Mormon women's oppositional embodiment
  • Living resistance: A cystor's story: Polycystic ovarian syndrome and the disruption of normative femininity
  • Living resistance: Old bags take a stand: A face off with ageism in America
  • Living resistance: Making up with my body: Applying cosmetics to resist disembodiment
  • Living resistance: I am a person now: Autism, indistinguishability, and (non)optimal outcome
  • Yelling and pushing on the bus: The complexity of Black girls' resistance
  • Big gay men's performative protest against body shaming: The case of girth and mirth
  • "What's love got to do with it?" The embodied activism of domestic violence survivors on welfare
  • Living resistance: "Your signing is so beautiful!" The radical invisibility of ASL interpreters in public-- Living resistance: Two shakes
  • Living resistance: "Showing our Muslim": Embracing the hijab in the era of paradox
  • Living resistance: "Doing out": a Black dandy defies gender norms in the Bronx
  • Living resistance: Everybody: Making fat radio for all of us
  • Embodying nonexistence: Encountering mono- and cisnormatives in everyday life
  • Freeing the nipple: Encoding the heterosexual male gaze into law
  • Give us a twirl: male baton twirlers' embodied resistance in a feminized terrain
  • "The gentle somebody": Rethinking Black female same-sex practices and heteronormativity in contemporary South Africa
  • Living resistance: Showing up as myself: Embodiment and authenticity in the classroom
  • Living resistance: Sitting and resisting: How using a wheelchair confronts ideas of normal
  • Living resistance: Against diabetic numerology in a Black body, or, Why I cannot live by the numbers
  • Living resistance: My women's studies professor uses botox?

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