Body studies : an introduction / Margo DeMello.
Material type: TextEdition: First EditionDescription: xvii, 348 pages : illustrationsISBN:- 9780415699303 (pbk.)
- 9780415699297 (hbk.)
- 306.4
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Understanding the body from a social and cultural perspective -- Introduction: theorizing the body -- The scientific and biomedical body -- Healthy and diseased bodies -- Aging bodies -- Reproducing bodies -- Dead bodies -- Mapping difference onto bodies -- Racialized and colonized bodies -- Gendered bodies -- Sexualized bodies -- Classed bodies -- Bodies and privilege -- Beautiful bodies -- Fat and thin bodies -- Extraordinary bodies -- Modified bodies -- Religious bodies -- State and corporate regulation of the body -- Tortured, punished and convict bodies -- Commodified bodies -- Animal bodies -- Bodies of the future -- Conclusion: bodies of the future -- Bibliography.
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