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portada Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780826522337
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Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations (in English)

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Synopsis "Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations (in English)"

Original research chapters are balanced with personal narratives.Table of ContentsIntroduction | Chris Bobel and Samantha KwanPart I: Going "Natural"• Body Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair | Breanne Fahs• Radical Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment | Monica Basile• Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy | Anne EsacoveLiving Resistance:• Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging Medical Advice Following Mastectomy | Joanna Rankin• My Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the "Kink" in My Hair . . . Today | Cheryl Thompson• Living My Full Life: My Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder | Christina Fisanick• Pretty Brown: Encounters with My Skin Color | Praveena LakshmananPart II: Representing Resistance• Blood as Resistance: Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism | Shayda Kafai• Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet?: Resistance through Parody in the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend | Katherine Phelps• The Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women's Oppositional Embodiment | Kelly Grove and Doug SchrockLiving Resistance:• A Cystor's Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative Femininity | Ledah McKellar• Old Bags Take a Stand: A Face Off with Ageism in America | Faith Baum and Lori Petchers• Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist Disembodiment | Haley Gentile• I Am a Person Now: Autism, Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome | Alyssa HillaryPart III: Creating Community, Disrupting Assumptions• Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The Complexity of Black Girls' Resistance | Stephanie D. Sears and Maxine Leeds Craig• Big Gay Men's Performative Protest Against Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth | Jason Whitesel• "What's Love Got to Do with It?": The Embodied Activism of Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare | Sheila M. KatzLiving Resistance:• "Your Signing Is So Beautiful!": The Radical Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public | Rachel Kolb• Two Shakes | Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer• "Showing Our Muslim": Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox | Sara Rehman• "Doing Out": A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the Bronx | Mark Broomfield• Everybody: Making Fat Radio for All of Us | Cat PauséPart IV: Transforming Institutions and Ideologies• Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life | J. E. Sumerau• Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into Law | J. Shoshanna Ehrlich• Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton Twirlers' Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain | Trenton M. Haltom• "That Gentle Somebody": Rethinking Black Female Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South Africa | Taylor RileyLiving Resistance:• Showing Up as Myself: Embodiment and Authenticity in the Classroom | Ryan Ambuter• Sitting and Resisting: How Using a Wheelchair Confronts Ideas of Normal | Margaret Stran• Against Diabetic Numerology in a Black Body, or, Why I Cannot Live by the Numbers | Anthony Ryan Hatch• My Women's Studies Professor Uses Botox? | Dana BerkowitzAfterword: Bodies of Resistance | Sonya Renee Taylor

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