Acknowledgements
Introduction: Tracing the Body in Classical and Contemporary Theory
Part I: Sociological Understandings of the Body
1:"Docile Bodies" from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NEW), Michel Foucault
2:Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Lee Bartky
3:"The Body and Physical Capital" from The Body and Social Theory (NEW), C. Shilling Shilling
4:Bodily Order (NEW), Bryan Turner
5:"Introduction"- from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
Part II: Bodies in Historical Context
6:Body: Tomb, Temple, Machine, and Self, Anthony Synnott
7:From The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners, Norbert Elias
8:The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality, Sander L. Gilman
9:The Anthropological Born Criminal, Nicole Hahn Rafter
10:Discipline and Dehumanization in a Total Institution: Institutional Survivors' Descriptions of Time-Out Rooms, Claudia Malacrida
Part III: The Medicalized Body
11:Continuity: Homosexuality and the Potential for Remedicalization (NEW), Peter Conrad
12:The Risk of Resistance: Perspectives on the Mass Childhood Immunization Program, Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim
13:The Medical Model of the Body as a Site of Risk: A Case Study of Childbirth, Karen Lane
14:Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Aging Male Body, Barbara L. Marshall and Stephen Katz
Part IV: The Shape/ing of Bodies
15:"Governing Fat Bodies" from Fat (NEW), Deborah Lupton
16:Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture, Susan Bordo
17:Body Projects and the Regulation of Normative Masculinity (NEW), Rosalind Gill, Karen Henwood, and Carl MacLean
Part V: Bodies and Difference
18:"Introduction"- from One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal, Alice Domurat Dreger
19:(In)visibility: Accounts of Embodiment of Women with Physical Disabilities and Differences, Hilde Zitzelsberger
20:Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George, Sherene H. Razack
Part VI: Sexual Bodies
21:Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism, Cheryl Chase
22:Coming to Terms: Masculinity and Physical Disability, Thomas J. Gerschick and Adam S. Miller
23:Embodiment and Abjection: Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation (NEW), Amy M. Russell
Part VII: Reproductive Bodies
24:The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles, Emily Martin
25:Bodies Out of Time: Women's Reproductive Firsts, Elizabeth Graham and Jacqueline Low
26:Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing: Reflections and Recommendations (NEW), Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch
Part VIII: Bodies across the Lifespan
27:Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools, Karin A. Martin
28:Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students (NEW), Meika Loe and Leigh Cuttino
29:Meno-boomers and Moral Guardians: An Exploration of the Cultural Construction of Menopause, Joy Webster Barbre
30:Contemporary Hospice Care: The Sequestration of the Unbounded Body and "Dirty Dying", Julia Lawton
Part IX: Working Bodies
31:From The Condition of the Working Class in England, Friedrich Engels
32:The Contented Worker, Nikolas Rose
33:Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of Body Technologies, Jennifer K. Wesely
Part X: Sporting Bodies
34:Habit(us), Body Techniques- and Body Callusing: An Ethnography of Mixed Martial Arts (NEW), Dale C. Spencer
35:Tackling Murderball: Masculinity, Disability, and the Big Screen (NEW), Michael Gard and Harley Fitzgerald
36:Sport, Genetics, and the "Natural Athlete": The Resurgence of Racial Science, Brett St. Louis
Part XI: Media, Representation, and the Body
37:"Getting Your Body Back": Postindustrial Fit Motherhood in Shape Fit Pregnancy Magazine (NEW), Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs
38:Feared and Revered: Media Representations of Racialized and Gendered Bodies - A Case Study, Sarah Neal
39:Big Handsome Men, Bears, and Others: Virtual Constructions of "Fat Male Embodiment", Lee F. Monaghan
Part XII: The Body as Project
40:The Body in Consumer Culture (NEW), Mike Featherstone
41:Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power through Resistance and Accommodation, Rose Weitz
42:Tattooing and Civilizing Processes: Body Modification as Self-Control (NEW), Michael Atkinson
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