*=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