The Body reader: essential social and cultural readings

Abstract

Acknowledgments viii Introduction: Not Just the Reflexive Reflex: Flesh and Bone in the Social Sciences 1 Mary Kosut and Lisa Jean Moore Part I: Vulnerable Bodies 51 1. The Body's Problems with Illness 58 Arthur Frank 2. Laboring Now: Current Cultural Constructions of Pregnancy, Birth, and Mothering 90 Barbara Katz Rothman 3. Am I Good Enough for my Family? Fetal Genetic Bodies and Prenatal Genetic Testing 121 Kristen Karlberg 4. Assume the Position: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence 146 Patricia Hill Collins 5. The Phenomenology of Death, Embodiment and Organ Transplantation 197 Gillian Haddow 6. Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society 226 Steve Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd Part II: Bodies as Mediums 256 7. Made by the Work: A Century of Laboring Bodies in the United States 266 Ed Slavishak 8. Embodied Capitalism and the Meth Economy 291 Jason Pine 9. Extreme Bodies/Extreme Culture 324 Mary Kosut 10. The Racial Nose 353 Sander L. Gilman 11. To Die For: The Semiotic Seductive Power of the Tanned Body 404 Phillip Vannini and Aaron M. McCright 12. The Naked Self: Being a Body in Televideo Cybersex 450 Dennis D. Waskul Part III: Extraordinary Bodies 506 13. Manscaping: The Tangle of Nature, Culture and Male Body Hair 512 Matthew Immergut 14. Incongruent Bodies: Teaching While Leaking 545 Lisa Jean Moore 15. Envisioning the Body in Relation: Finding Sex, Changing Sex 567 Eric Plemons 16. Scars 588 Jarvis Jay Masters 17. Slippery Slopes: Media, Disability and Adaptive Sports 593 William J. Peace Part IV: Bodies in Media 616 18. Hey Girl, Am I More than My Hair?: African American Women and Their Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair 622 Tracey Owens Patton 19. Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women 654 Le'a Kent 20. Images of Addiction: The Representation of Illicit Drug Use in Popular Media 686 Richard Huggins 21. The Ana Sanctuary: Women's Pro-Anorexic Narratives in Cyberspace 712 Karen Dias Contributors 740 Index