Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-412) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: not just the reflexive reflex: flesh and bone in the social sciences / Mary Kosut and Lisa Jean Moore -- The body's problems with illness / Arthur Frank -- Laboring now: current cultural constructions of pregnancy, birth, and mothering / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Am I good enough for my family?: Fetal genetic bodies and prenatal genetic testing / Kristen Karlberg -- Assume the position: the changing contours of sexual violence / Patricia Hill Collins -- The phenomenology of death, embodiment, and organ transplantation / Gillian Haddow -- Chemically reactive bodies, knowledge, and society / Steve Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd Jr. -- "Made by the work": a century of laboring bodies in the United States / Ed Slavishak -- Embodied capitalism and the meth economy / Jason Pine -- Extreme bodies/extreme culture / Mary Kosut -- The racial nose / Sander L. Gilman -- To die for: the semiotic seductive power of the tanned body / Phillip Vannini and Aaron M. McCright -- The naked self: being a body in televideo cybersex / Dennis D. Waskul -- Manscaping: the tangle of nature, culture, and male body hair / Matthew Immergut -- Incongruent bodies: teaching while leaking / Lisa Jean Moore -- Envisioning the body in relation: finding sex, changing sex / Eric Plemons -- Scars / Jarvis Jay Masters -- Slippery slopes: media, disability, and adaptive sports / William J. Peace -- Hey girl, am I more than my hair? African American women and their struggles with beauty, body image, and hair / Tracey Owens Patton -- Fighting abjection: representing fat women / Le'a Kent -- Images of addiction: the representation of illicit drug use in popular media / Richard Huggins -- The Ana sanctuary: women's pro-anorexic narratives in cyberspace / Karen Dias.
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