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Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations

By Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
978-0826522337, 0826522335
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2737886 bytes)
Pages
273\273
Time added
2019-10-07 04:31:02

Description

Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of society's body outlaws-individuals from myriad social locations who oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body. Original research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative interviews, and participant observation) along with personal narratives provide a window into the everyday lives of people rewriting the norms of embodiment in sites like schools, sporting events, and doctors' offices. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Table of Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 Part I: Going “Natural”......Page 24 1. Body Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair......Page 26 2. Radical Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment......Page 38 3. Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy......Page 53 Living Resistance | Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging Medical Advice Following Mastectomy......Page 65 Living Resistance | My Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the “Kink” in My Hair…Today......Page 69 Living Resistance | Living My Full Life: Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder......Page 71 Living Resistance | Pretty Brown: Encounters with My Skin Color......Page 73 Part II: Representing Resistance......Page 76 4. Blood as Resistance: Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism......Page 78 5. Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet? Resistance through Parody in the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend......Page 91 6. The Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women’s Oppositional Embodiment......Page 103 Living Resistance | A Cystor’s Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative Femininity......Page 116 Living Resistance | Old Bags Take a Stand: A Face Off with Ageism in America......Page 119 Living Resistance | Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist Disembodiment......Page 122 Living Resistance | I Am a Person Now: Autism, Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome......Page 125 Part III: Creating Community, Disrupting Assumptions......Page 130 7. Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The Complexity of Black Girls’ Resistance......Page 132 8. Big Gay Men’s Performative Protest against Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth......Page 144 9. “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” The Embodied Activism of Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare......Page 159 Living Resistance | “Your Signing Is So Beautiful!” The Radical Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public......Page 175 Living Resistance | Two Shakes......Page 178 Living Resistance | “Showing Our Muslim”: Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox......Page 180 Living Resistance | “Doing Out”: A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the Bronx......Page 183 Living Resistance | Everybody: Making Fat Radio for All of Us......Page 186 Part IV: Transforming Institutions and Ideologies......Page 190 10. Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life......Page 192 11. Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into Law......Page 204 12. Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton Twirlers’ Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain......Page 215 13. “That Gentle Somebody”: Rethinking Black Female Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South Africa......Page 228 Living Resistance | Showing Up as Myself: Embodiment and Authenticity in the Classroom......Page 241 Living Resistance | Sitting and Resisting: How Using a Wheelchair Confronts Ideas of Normal......Page 243 Living Resistance | Against Diabetic Numerology in a Black Body, or, Why I Cannot Live by the Numbers......Page 246 Living Resistance | My Women’s Studies Professor Uses Botox?......Page 249 Afterword: Bodies of Resistance......Page 252 Contributors......Page 254 Index......Page 262

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