Embodied Resistance

Chris Bobel And Samantha Kwan

Description

Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary "body outlaws"--people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden.  This collection ventures beyond the conventional focus on the "disciplined body" and instead, examines conformity from the perspective of resisters.   By balancing accessibly written original ethnographic research with personal narratives, Embodied Resistance provides a window into the everyday lives of those who defy or violate socially constructed body rules and conventions.

Sujets

• Gender Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826517883
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules

EMBODIEDRESISTANCE

Edited by CHRIS BOBEL and SAMANTHA KWAN

Embodied Resistance

Embodied Resistance

Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules

Edited by Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan

Vanderbilt University Press Nashville

© 2011 by Vanderbilt University Press Nasville, Tennessee 37235 All rigts reserved First printing 2011

his book is printed on acid-free paper derived from sustainable sources. Manufactured in te United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Embodied resistance : callenging te norms, breaking te rules / edited by Cris Bobel and Samanta Kwan. p. cm. Includes bibliograpical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8265-1786-9 (clot edition : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8265-1787-6 (pbk. edition : alk. paper) 1. Human body—Social aspects. 2. Mind and body. 3. Manners and customs. 4. Women—Psycology. I. Bobel, Cris, 1963– II. Kwan, Samanta. HM636.E423 2011 306.4—dc22 2011003007

For Gracie, no matter wat  —C.B.

For Scott and hals, my support and my smile  —S.K.

Contents

Foreword Rose Weitz

Acknowledgments

Introduction Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan

Part I Rewriting Gender Scripts

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The Specter of Excess: Race, Class, and Gender in Women’s Body Hair Narratives Breanne Fahs and Denise A. Delgado

“Is That Any Way to Treat a Lady?”: The Dominatrix’s Dungeon Danielle J. Lindemann

“Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’”: Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Natalie M. Peluso

Becoming a FemaletoMale Transgender (FTM) in South Korea Tari Youngjung Na and Hae Yeon Choo

LIVING RESISTANCE From Rapunzel to G.I. Jane Samantha Binford

LIVING RESISTANCE Funnel as Phallus Sara L. Crawley

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Part II Challenging Marginalization

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“Give Me a Boa and Some Bling!”: Red Hat Society Members Commanding Visibility in the Public Sphere M. Elise Radina, Lydia K. Manning, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Annette Lynch

Fat. Hairy. Sexy: Contesting Standards of Beauty and Sexuality in the Gay Community Nathaniel C. Pyle and Noa Logan Klein

Belly Dancing Mommas: Challenging Cultural Discourses of Maternity Angela M. Moe

“It’s Important to Show Your Colors”: CounterHeteronormativity in a Metropolitan Community Church J. Edward Sumerau and Douglas P. Schrock

LIVING RESISTANCE An Accidental Education Hanne Blank

LIVING RESISTANCE The Pickup Catherine Bergart

Part III Defying Authoritative Knowledges and Conventional Wisdom

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Anorexia as a Choice: Constructing a New Community of Health and Beauty through ProAna Websites Abigail Richardson and Elizabeth Cherry

Public Mothers and Private Practices: Breastfeeding as Transgression Jennifer A. Reich

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“It’s Hard to Say”: Moving Beyond the Mystery of Female Genital Pain Christine Labuski

“What I Had to Do to Survive”: SelfInjurers’ Bodily Emotion Work Margaret Leaf and Douglas P. Schrock

LIVING RESISTANCE Intersex? Not My Problem Esther Morris Leidolf

LIVING RESISTANCE DoulaAssisted Childbirth: Helping Her Birth Her Way Angela Horn

Part IV Negotiating Boundaries and Meanings

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The Politics of the Stall: Transgender and Genderqueer Workers Negotiating “the Bathroom Question” Catherine Connell

The Everyday Resistance of Vegetarianism Samantha Kwan and Louise Marie Roth

Menopausal and Misbehaving: When Women “Flash” in Front of Others Heather E. Dillaway

The Transformation of Bodily Practices among Religious Defectors Lynn Davidman

LIVING RESISTANCE Crossing the Menstrual Line David Linton

LIVING RESISTANCE Myself, Covered Beverly Yuen Thompson

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