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Author:   Weitz ,  Kwan
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780199343799

ISBN 10:   0199343799
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"*=New to this edition Preface Part I. The Social Construction of Women's Bodies 1. A History of Women's Bodies, Rose Weitz 2. Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology, Judith Lorber 3. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools, Karin A. Martin *4. Medicalization, Natural Childbirth and Birthing Experiences, Sarah Jane Brubaker and Heather E. Dillaway 5. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Lee Bartky *6. Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Part II. The Politics of Sexuality 7. Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feeling, Iris Marion Young 8. Daring to Desire: Culture and the Bodies of Adolescent Girls, Deborah L. Tolman *9. A Tale of Two Technologies: HPV Vaccination, Male Circumcision, and Sexual Health, Laura M. Carpenter and Monica J. Casper 10. ""Get Your Freak On"": Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity, Patricia Hill Collins 11. Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture, Isabel Molina Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia 12. ""So Full of Myself as a Chick"": Goth Women, Sexual Independence, and Gender Egalitarianism, Amy C. Wilkins Part III. The Politics of Appearance 13. Designing Women: Cultural Hegemony and the Exercise of Power Among Women who Have Undergone Elective Mammoplasty, Patricia Gagné and Deanna McGaughey 14. Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power Through Resistance and Accommodation, Rose Weitz *15. Navigating Public Spaces: Gender, Race, and Body Privilege in Everyday Life, Samantha Kwan *16. The Moral Underpinnings of Beauty: A Meaning-Based Explanation for Light and Dark Complexions in Advertising, Shyon Baumann 17. Reclaiming the Female Body: Women Body Modifiers and Feminist Debates, Victoria Pitts Part IV. The Politics of Behavior 18. From the ""Muscle Moll"" to the ""Butch"" Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports, Susan K. Cahn 19. Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the United States, Vivyan Adair 20. Backlash and Continuity: The Political Trajectory of Fetal Rights, Rachel Roth *21. Hijab and American Muslim Women: Creating the Space for Autonomous Selves, Rhys H. Williams and Gira Vashi 22. Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance, C.J. Pascoe *23. Being Undocumented and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Multiple Vulnerabilities Through the Lens of Feminist Intersectionality, Margaret E. Adams and Jacquelyn Campbell"

Reviews

This book is unique and fills an important gap. One of the strengths is the equal weight given to empowerment and agency alongside inequality and control. This makes for great class discussions on why women treat their bodies the way they do. It also offers such cutting-edge and compelling case studies and topics! It is an excellent resource and discussion of the body and contemporary politics, and is both theoretical and empirical, interdisciplinary and cutting edge, and readable and engaging. --Winifred Poster, Washington University I LOVE this book. I would be miserable teaching my 'gender, sexuality, and the body' course without it. --Laura Carpenter, Vanderbilt University This book is unique and fills an important gap. One of the strengths is the equal weight given to empowerment and agency alongside inequality and control. This makes for great class discussions on why women treat their bodies the way they do. It also offers such cutting-edge and compelling case studies and topics! It is an excellent resource and discussion of the body and contemporary politics, and is both theoretical and empirical, interdisciplinary and cutting edge, and readable and engaging. --Winifred Poster, Washington University I LOVE this book. I would be miserable teaching my 'gender, sexuality, and the body' course without it. --Laura Carpenter, Vanderbilt University Yes, I do like the current approach of the book: How ideas about women's bodies are socially constructed; how these ideas can be used to control women's bodies; and how women as agents resist these constructions. I think the themes of sexuality, appearance and behaviour are useful in conveying the politics of women's bodies. ... The length of the book is suitable. Each chapter is a good length for a first-year class. ... I found some of the new additions, such fatness and compulsive heterosexuality, most useful, since they added context and augmented feminist issues. ... No major weaknesses, but I would suggest a little more updates on appearance, behaviour and the idea of self-policing. ... I am likely to adopt a new edition. - Pauline Phipps, University of Windsor This book is very unique, and therefore fills an important gap that the other books [I use in my course] don't cover. One of the strengths is the equal weight given to empowerment and agency alongside inequality and control. This makes for great class discussions on why women treat their bodies the way they do. I would like to see more technology and science as it relates to the body, rather than just medicine. ... This book addresses the really important issue of 'the body' which still isn't addressed well in the feminist and social science literature, and it offers such cutting-edge and compelling case studies and topics! It is an excellent resource and discussion of the body and contemporary politics; both theoretical and empirical; interdisciplinary and cutting edge; readable and engaging. I would be very interested in adopting a new edition. - Winifred Poster, Washington University I like the length of the chapters/sections, and many of the major works on the body are covered. However, a course on the body would need to address men's bodies as well as women's, and the text's emphasis on white women in the U.S. is a big limitation. ... There should be more chapters on rac

"""This book is unique and fills an important gap. One of the strengths is the equal weight given to empowerment and agency alongside inequality and control. This makes for great class discussions on why women treat their bodies the way they do. It also offers such cutting-edge and compelling case studies and topics! It is an excellent resource and discussion of the body and contemporary politics, and is both theoretical and empirical, interdisciplinary and cutting edge, and readable and engaging.""--Winifred Poster, Washington University ""I LOVE this book. I would be miserable teaching my 'gender, sexuality, and the body' course without it.""--Laura Carpenter, Vanderbilt University"

Yes, I do like the current approach of the book: How ideas about women's bodies are socially constructed; how these ideas can be used to control women's bodies; and how women as agents resist these constructions. I think the themes of sexuality, appearance and behaviour are useful in conveying the politics of women's bodies. ... The length of the book is suitable. Each chapter is a good length for a first-year class. ... I found some of the new additions, such fatness and compulsive heterosexuality, most useful, since they added context and augmented feminist issues. ... No major weaknesses, but I would suggest a little more updates on appearance, behaviour and the idea of self-policing. ... I am likely to adopt a new edition. - Pauline Phipps, University of Windsor This book is very unique, and therefore fills an important gap that the other books [I use in my course] don't cover. One of the strengths is the equal weight given to empowerment and agency alongside inequality and control. This makes for great class discussions on why women treat their bodies the way they do. I would like to see more technology and science as it relates to the body, rather than just medicine. ... This book addresses the really important issue of 'the body' which still isn't addressed well in the feminist and social science literature, and it offers such cutting-edge and compelling case studies and topics! It is an excellent resource and discussion of the body and contemporary politics; both theoretical and empirical; interdisciplinary and cutting edge; readable and engaging. I would be very interested in adopting a new edition. - Winifred Poster, Washington University I like the length of the chapters/sections, and many of the major works on the body are covered. However, a course on the body would need to address men's bodies as well as women's, and the text's emphasis on white women in the U.S. is a big limitation. ... There should be more chapters on rac

This book is unique and fills an important gap. One of the strengths is the equal weight given to empowerment and agency alongside inequality and control. This makes for great class discussions on why women treat their bodies the way they do. It also offers such cutting-edge and compelling case studies and topics! It is an excellent resource and discussion of the body and contemporary politics, and is both theoretical and empirical, interdisciplinary and cutting edge, and readable and engaging. --Winifred Poster, Washington University I LOVE this book. I would be miserable teaching my 'gender, sexuality, and the body' course without it. --Laura Carpenter, Vanderbilt University

Author Information

Rose Weitz is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is the author of several books, including The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach (2012) and Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives (2004). Samantha Kwan is Associate Professor of Sociology and a Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty affiliate at the University of Houston. She is coauthor of Framing Fat: Competing Constructions in Contemporary Culture (2013) and coeditor of Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules (2011).

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