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• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Preface
• Part I Understanding the Body from a Social and Cultural Perspective
• 1 Introduction: Theorizing the Body
• An introduction to body studies
• Interesting issues: born this way blog
• Embodiment
• Interesting issues: apotemnophilia
• Inscribing the social order
• Theorizing the female body
• Counter-inscription
• Key terms
• Further reading
• Part II The Scientific and Biomedical Body
• 2 Healthy and Diseased Bodies
• The social construction of health and illness
• Interesting issues: schizophrenia in Ireland
• Culturally specific illnesses and conditions
• Disability and the normative body
• Freaks, monsters, and freak shows
• Gender, morbidity, and mortality
• HIV/AIDS: a bodily, social, and cultural phenomenon
• Class matters: illness and inequality
• Interesting issues: man robs bank to get health care
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 3 Aging Bodies
• How we age
• The culture of youth
• Interesting issues: the cougar
• Problems facing the elderly
• Age norms
• Interesting issues: Helen Mirren’s bikini
• Experiences of aging
• The aging prison population
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 4 Reproducing Bodies
• Menstruation, fertility, and menopause
• Contraception, abortion, and reproductive rights
• Interesting issues: project prevention
• Population control, race, and the loss of women’s choice
• Interesting issues: China’s one child policy
• Pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation
• Assisted reproductive technologies
• Prenatal testing and the threat of the designer baby
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 5 Dead Bodies
• How and where people die
• Organized death
• Interesting issues: the killing fields of Cambodia
• How do we know when we’re dead?
• Treating the dead
• Burial rites
• Other methods of disposing of the dead
• Interesting isssues: Georgia Tri-State Crematory scandal
• Key terms
• Further reading
• Part III Mapping Difference onto Bodies
• 6 Racialized and Colonized Bodies
• What is race?
• Interesting issues: the shooting of Trayvon Martin
• Colonialism and the emergence of race
• The display and eroticization of racialized bodies
• Interesting issues: good hair
• Mapping and measuring bodies in the era of biological racism
• Race, health, and race purity
• The animalization of non-white bodies
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 7 Gendered Bodies
• The gendered body
• Men are instrumental; women are ornamental
• Interesting issues: the removal of Hillary Clinton from the Situation Room photo
• Becoming male or female: circumcision and clitoridectomy
• Hair matters
• Women’s bodies: smaller is better
• Interesting issues: pens for women
• The problematic male body
• Male and female: transgendered bodies
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 8 Sexualized Bodies
• How sex is produced
• Intersexuality: are there just two sexes?
• Changing sex: transsexuality
• Male and female sexualities
• Interesting issues: Toddlers & Tiaras and the sexualization of little girls
• Gay, straight, bi, and ?: a diversity of sexualities
• Body play, bondage, and fetishes
• Sex as a weapon: rape and castration
• Interesting issues: the Toronto SlutWalk
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 9 Classed Bodies
• How does class shape the body?
• Dirty jobs and clean jobs
• Pink-collar bodies
• Consumption, class, and the body
• Adorning the classed body: sumptuary laws
• Interesting issues: shoes and class
• The invisibility of poor bodies
• Interesting issues: white trash
• Key terms
• Further reading
• Part IV Bodies and Privilege
• 10 Beautiful Bodies
• The science of beauty
• Interesting issues: the Golden Ratio
• The importance of female beauty
• Beauty pays
• Beautiful men
• Racialized and classed standards of beauty
• Interesting issues: ulzzang
• Manufacturing beauty: cosmetic surgery
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 11 Fat and Thin Bodies
• The obesity epidemic
• Interesting issues: the fat acceptance movement and fatshion blogs
• The drive to lose weight
• Eating disorders
• You need some meat on your bones: a preference for fat
• Weight prejudice
• Interesting issues: Lane Bryant ad: too fat for TV
• Sugar, fast food, and the sweetening of the world’s food
• Key terms
• Further reading
• Part V Extraordinary Bodies
• 12 Modified Bodies
• From raw to cooked
• Body modification in traditional cultures
• Body modification in states
• Body modification today
• Tattooing, gender, and sexuality
• Interesting issues: Jean Carroll
• Modern primitives and non-mainstream body modifications
• Interesting issues: Spanner case
• Subversive bodies
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 13 Religious Bodies
• The veil
• Pollution and the female body
• Interesting issues: the witch
• Denying the body: fasting, abstinence, and self-mortification
• Interesting issues: Christian weight loss programs
• Religion and sex
• The body/soul division
• Bodily practices
• Spirit possession, stigmata, and resurrection: miracles of the faithful
• Key terms
• Further reading
• Part VI State and Corporate Regulation of the Body
• 14 Tortured, Punished, and Convict Bodies
• Marking deviance: branding, castration, and tattooing
• Interesting issues: Geneva Convention
• Torture, rape, and other forms of corporal punishment
• Capital punishment
• The rise of the prison and the confinement of criminals
• Marks of deviance: identifying criminals
• Interesting issues: mug shots
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 15 Commodified Bodies
• Slavery and the ownership of people
• Prostitution, sex trafficking, and sex tourism
• Interesting issues: virginity for sale
• Selling love: mail order brides
• Interesting issues: romance tourism
• Pornographic bodies
• How much are bodies, and body parts, worth?
• Who owns our bodies?
• Key terms
• Further reading
• 16 Animal Bodies
• Human–animal kinship: evolutionary links
• Interesting issues: human–animal transformation
• Domestication and selective breeding: the creation of animal bodies
• Altering the animal body
• Bodily control
• Interesting issues: the link between violence to animals and violence to humans
• A different kind of hybrid
• Human–animal kinship: coming together
• Key terms
• Further reading
• Part VII Bodies of the Future
• 17 Conclusion: Bodies of the Future
• Cyborg bodies
• Virtual bodies
• Hybrid bodies
• Digital bodies
• Key terms
• Further reading
• Bibliography
• Index