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2011

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Gendered Bodies

Feminist Perspectives, Second Edition

Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore

Designed for undergraduate students, Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives, Second Edition, is a concise textbook/reader that provides a critical and multifaceted approach to the study of gendered bodies. Acclaimed scholars Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore analyze the construction of gendered bodies in different contexts. Exploring a broad range of both long-established and more cutting-edge topics in feminist studies, Lorber and Moore present scholarly research, offer information on relevant laws and political events, and point to directions for social change.

Gendered Bodies, Second Edition, focuses on key themes that reveal how gendered relations, ideologies, and practices shape human bodies. At the same time, it shows how human bodies are linked to other significant axes of inequality based on racial ethnic group, disability, sexuality, class, culture, religion, age, and nation. Thoroughly updated throughout, the second edition incorporates sixteen new selections - including non-Western perspectives - on such fascinating topics as evolution and motherhood; breastfeeding; breast cancer; the effects of height on men; job discrimination and transgendered people; world champion runner Caster Semenya and sex verification; disability, gender, and embodiment; and Palestinian female suicide bombers. It also adds new references and a concluding chapter, "Social Bodies in an Interconnected World."

Gendered Bodies, Second Edition, is ideal for courses on the body, feminist theory, women and health, and the sociology of gender. Each chapter includes a list of key concepts, three readings, and suggested readings. The book also includes an appendix of class exercises.

Readership : Undergraduate sociology of the body or feminist sociology classes.

*=New to this Edition
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Key Terms and Issues
1. Neither Nature Nor Nurture: Theories of the Gendered Body
Anne Fausto-Sterling: * "R" Genes Us?
Natalie Angier: * No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: * Incorporating Mothers into the Evolutionary Process
2. "Are You My Mother? My Father?": Gendering Procreation
Kristen Karlberg: Shaping Babies: No, Not THAT Kind! Can I Try Again?
Linda M. Blum and Jennifer J. Esala: * Breastfeeding
Lisa Jean Moore: Sperm, the Lovable Character in Facts-of-Life Books
3. Eve, Venus, and "Real Women": Constructing Women's Bodies
Vicotria Pitts-Taylor: The Surface and the Depth: Medicalization, Beauty, and Body Image in Cosmetic Surgery
Muriel L. Sims: * Me and My Breasts
Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi: Telling My Story
4. Adonis, Don Juan, and "Real Men": Constructing Men's Bodies
Stephen S. Hall: * Size Matters
Peter Hennen: Bear Bodies, Bear Masculinity
Julie A. Winterich, Sara A. Quandt, Joseph G. Grzywacz, Peter E. Clark, David P. Miller, Joshua Acuña, and Thomas A. Arcury: * How African-American and White Men Experience Cancer Screening Exams Involving the Rectum
*5. Aligning Bodies, Identities and Expresssions: Transgender Bodies
Julia Serano: * Before and After: Class and Body Transformation
Kristen Schilt: * Just One of the Guys
Paisley Currah: * Expectant Bodies: The Pregnant Man
*6. Sports: The Playing Grounds of Gender
Alice Dreger: * Where's the Rulebook for Sex Verification?
Barack Obama: * Finding Manhood on the Basketball Court
Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano: * Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports
7. You Don't Need Arms and Legs to Sing: Gender and Disability
Gelya Frank: * Venus on Wheels
Irving Kenneth Zola: Tell Me, Tell Me
Susan Wendell: The Suffering and Limited Body
8. Violent Bodies: Violence and Violations
Pauline Oosterhoff, Prisca Zwanikken, and Evert Ketting: Sexual Torture of Men
Dorit Naaman: * Brides of Palestine/Angels of Death: The Case of the Palestinian Female Suicide Bombers
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: * Reexamining Femicide
Conclusion: Social Bodies in an Interconnected World
Class Exercises
Films with Somatic Themes

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Judith Lorber is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. Lisa Jean Moore is Coordinator of Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York.

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