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Price: $66.95

Format:
Paperback 386 pp.
6" x 9"

ISBN-10:
0195425480

ISBN-13:
9780195425482

Copyright Year:
2008

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Sociology of the Body

A Reader

Claudia Malacrida and Jacqueline Low

Sociology of the Body is an introductory text reader that provides students with insight into theories and issues that shape contemporary perspectives of the body. Combining the work of classical theorists with modern-day sociological theory, the text takes a broad approach to achieving a sociological understanding of the body.

Readership : An introductory text-reader aimed at second- to fourth- year university students studying courses in Sociology of the Body; Sociology of Heath, Illness, and Well-Being; Body and Society; Social Theory and the Body, Women, Men, and the Body.

Reviews

  • "The text is versatile, and can equally be used either for a full or a half course depending on how the course is taught, this could be the only text that need be assigned, especially in a half course." --Karen Anderson, Sociology, York University

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Credits
Part I: Tracing the Boy in Classical and Contemporary Theory
1. Chris Shilling: The Body in Sociology
2. Arthur W. Frank: Bring Bodies Back In: A Decade Review
3. Sandra Lee Bartky: Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
Part II: Bodies in Historical Context
4. Norbert Elias: From The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners
5. Anthony Synnott: Body: Tomb, Temple, Machine and Self
6. Sandra L. Gilman: The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality
Part III: Presenting the Body
7. Erving Goffman: 'Introduction' from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
8. Lee F. Monaghan: Big Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of 'Fat Male Embodiment'
9. Anne E. Becker: Nurturing and Negligence: Working on Others' Bodies in Fiji
Part IV: Medical Social Control of the Body
10. Claudia Malacrida: Discipline and Dehumanization in a Total Institution: Institutional Survivors' Descriptions of Time-Out Rooms
11. Nicole Hahn Rafter: The Anthropological Born Criminal
12. Robert N. Proctor: The Destruction of "Lives Not Worth Living"
Part V: Gendered Bodies
13. Linda M. Blum: From Sacred to Disembodied Motherhood: Breastfeeding with the Experts and the State
14. Susan Bordo: Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture
15. Raewyn Connell: Men's Bodies
Part VI: Transgressive Bodies
16. Alice Domurat Dreger: Introduction from One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
17. Cheryl Chase: Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism
18. Richard Ekins and Dave King: Telling Body Transgendering Stories
Part VII: Risky Bodies
19. Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim: The Risk of Resistance: Perspectives on the Mass Childhood Immunization Programme
20. Karen Lane: The Medical Model of the Body as Site of Risk: A Case Study of Childbirth
21. Julia Lawton: Contemporary Hospice Care: The Sequestration of the Unbounded Body and 'Dirty Dying'.
Part VIII: Reproductive Bodies
22. Emily Martin: The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male - Female Roles
23. Katha Pollitt: 'Fetal Rights': A New Assault on Feminism
24. Elizabeth Graham and Jacqueline Low: Bodies Out of Time: Women's Reproductive Firsts
Part IX: Children's Bodies
25. Berry Mayall: Children's Lived Bodies in Everyday Life
26. Karin A. Martin: Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools
27. Nikolas Rose: The Gaze of the Psychologist
Part X: Working Bodies
28. Nikolas Rose: The Contented Worker
29. Barbara Ehrenreich: Scrubbing In Maine
30. Jennifer K. Weseley: Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of Body Technologies
Part XI: Disabled Bodies
31. Deborah Kent: Somewhere a Mockingbird
32. Thomas J. Gerschick and Adam S. Miller: Coming to Terms: Masculinity and Physical Disability
33. Hilde Zitzelsberger: (In)visibility: Accounts of Embodiment of Women with Physical Disabilities and Differences
Part XII: Sporting Bodies
34. Shari L. Dworkin: 'Holding Back': Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women's Muscular Strength
35. Gay Mason: Looking into Masculinity: Sport, Media and the Construction of the Male Body Beautiful
36. Brett St. Louis: Sport, Genetics and the 'Natural Athlete': The Resurgence of Racial Science
Part XIII: Racialized Bodies
37. Sarah Neal: Feared and Revered: Media Representations of Racialized and Gendered Bodies - A Case Study
38. Dorothy E. Roberts: The Future of Reproductive Choice for Poor Women and Women of Colour
39. Sherene H. Razack: Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George
Part XIV: Consumer Bodies
40. Christian Klesse: 'Modern Primitivism': Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation
41. Rose Weitz: Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power Through Resistance and Accommodation
42. Kathy Davis: 'A Dubious Equality': Men, Women and Cosmetic Surgery
Part XV: Aging Bodies
43. Joy Webster Barbre: Meno-Boomers and Moral Guardians: An Exploration of the Cultural Construction of Menopause
44. Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz: Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body
45. Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs: Aging, Alzheimer's, and the Uncivilized Body
Part XVI: Postmodern Bodies
46. Donna J. Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
47. Victoria L. Pitts: Cyberpunk, Biomedicine, and the High Tech Body
48. Julie Clark: The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
Index

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Claudia Malacrida is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Lethbridge University. Jacqueline Low is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of New Brunswick.

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Special Features

  • Versatile. This stand-alone text features a variety of well-chosen readings that are varied in their degree of difficulty.
  • Flexible. The selection of readings make this text suitable for both one-semester and full-year courses.
  • International Perspective. Examining the impact of universal factors-history, gender, age, and health-forges a comprehensive, cross-cultural approach.
  • Comprehensive. Coverage of a wide variety of topics means students receive a solid foundation to studying the sociology of the body.
  • Interdisciplinary Approach. Diverse perspective reinforced through readings and commentary from disciplines that include history, anthropology and sociology.
  • Guidance. Inclusion of individualized section introductions and reference reading lists strengthen student understanding of the topics at hand, and encourage further exploration of the subject.