Embodied Difference (eBook)

Jamie A. Thomas is assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.Christina Jackson is assistant professor of sociology at Stockton University.

Introduction: Approaching the Body Through Public-facing Scholarship in PhiladelphiaHow To Use This BookUnit One: The Rational Mind vs. The Criminal BodyPreface to Unit OneChapter 1 - Our Own Flesh and Blood: Putting the Body at the Center of Violence and Dehumanization - Krista K. ThomasonChapter 2 - Are We Our Brains? How Early Christianity Shaped Western Ideas About Power, Morality, and Personhood - Jessica WrightChapter 3 - Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis - Ute BettrayUnit Two: The Deviant and Undesirable BodyPreface to Unit Two Chapter 4 - Bias, Brains, and Skulls: Tracing the Legacy of Scientific Racism in the 19th Century Works of Samuel George Morton and Friedrich Tiedemann - Paul Wolff Mitchell and John S. MichaelChapter 5 - Female Vampires as Embodied Critiques of Heteronormativity, Blood-Mixing, and Patriarchy: From Carmilla to Fledgling - Dorisa CostelloChapter 6 - Protest Bodies: The Right to Protect Your Own in Environmental Justice and Redevelopment Battles - Christina JacksonChapter 7 - Death and the Power of the Young Female Body: Iconic Legal Cases - Barry FurrowUnit Three: The Beautiful Body and Its PartsPreface to Unit ThreeChapter 8 - Gray Matters: Social Violence and the Victorian Surgical Textbook - Emily AugustChapter 9 - ‘Tuck in Your Derrière’: Butts and Bodies in Ballet and Tap - Kat RichterChapter 10 - The Year is 2093: Reanimation from Frankenstein to Prometheus as Sci-fi Metaphor for (Dis)Embodied Female Futures and Colonization of Space - Jamie A. Thomas