UID:
edocfu_9961517312302883
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780190842505
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9780190842475
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks
Content:
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of "nature" and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The volume is divided into three main parts: Bodies and Methodology; Marginalized Bodies; and Embodied Sociology. Sociologists contributing to the first two parts focus on the body and the ways it is given meaning, regulated, and subjected to legal and medical oversight in a variety of social contexts (particularly when the body in question violates norms for how a culture believes bodies "ought" to behave or appear). Sociologists contributing to the last part use the bodily as a lens through which to study social institutions and experiences.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2020.
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Introduction: Toward a Sociology of the Body /
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Animal, Mechanical and Me: Organ Transplantation and the Ambiguity of Embodiment /
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Aging, Gender, and the Body /
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Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology /
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Male Breast Cancer in the Public Imagination /
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Good-looking Men Require Hard-working Women: The Labor of Consumption in the Grooming Industry /
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Feeding and Fasting Bodies /
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Contrasting Scientific Discourses of Skin Lightening in Domestic and Global Contexts /
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Methodologies for Categories in Motion /
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Contesting Lyme Disease /
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Unruly Bodies: Figurative Violence and The State's Responses to The Black Panther Party /
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Race, Phenotype, and Nationality in Brazil and the United States /
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The Aesthetic Labor of Ethnographers /
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Bodies That Don't Matter, But Labor That Does: The Low Wage Male Migrant in Singapore and Dubai /
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Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care /
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Contesting New Markets for Bodily Knowledge: When and How Experts Draw the Line /
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Pregnant Embodiment and Field Research /
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The Artificial Pancreas in Cyborg Bodies /
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Managing Risky Bodies: From Pregnancy to Vaccination /
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The Place of the Body in Resistance to Intimate Partner Violence: What Do We Know? /
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Sensory Experience and Method /
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Mixed Methods in Body and Embodiment Research /
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YouTube Vlogs as Illness Narratives: Methodological Consideration /
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Representations of Fatness by Experts and the Media and How This Shapes Attitudes /
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Health at Every Size (HAES) as a Reform (Social) Movement within Public Health: A Situational Analysis /
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Fat as a Floating Signifier: Race, Weight, and Femininity in the National Imaginary /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-084247-4
Language:
English
