Embodied Difference -

Embodied Difference

Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse
Buch | Softcover
268 Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6388-8 (ISBN)
43,65 inkl. MwSt
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, this book explores marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. It centers upon physical contexts, discursive spaces, and philosophical arenas to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, whiteness, and normativity.
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.

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 Philadelphia



How To Use This Book



Unit One: The Rational Mind vs. The Criminal Body



Preface to Unit One



Chapter 1 - Our Own Flesh and Blood: Putting the Body at the Center of Violence and Dehumanization - Krista K. Thomason



Chapter 2 - Are We Our Brains? How Early Christianity Shaped Western Ideas About Power, Morality, and Personhood - Jessica Wright



Chapter 3 - Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis - Ute Bettray



Unit Two: The Deviant and Undesirable Body



Preface 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. Michael



Chapter 5 - Female Vampires as Embodied Critiques of Heteronormativity, Blood-Mixing, and Patriarchy: From Carmilla to Fledgling - Dorisa Costello



Chapter 6 - Protest Bodies: The Right to Protect Your Own in Environmental Justice and Redevelopment Battles - Christina Jackson



Chapter 7 - Death and the Power of the Young Female Body: Iconic Legal Cases - Barry Furrow



Unit Three: The Beautiful Body and Its Parts



Preface to Unit Three



Chapter 8 - Gray Matters: Social Violence and the Victorian Surgical Textbook - Emily August



Chapter 9 - ‘Tuck in Your Derrière’: Butts and Bodies in Ballet and Tap - Kat Richter



Chapter 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

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Jamie A. Thomas, Christina Jackson, Emily August
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 217 mm
Gewicht 404 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4985-6388-0 / 1498563880
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-6388-8 / 9781498563888
Zustand Neuware
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