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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