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Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse
Contributor(s): Thomas, Jamie A. (Editor), Jackson, Christina (Editor), Thomas, Jamie A. (Contribution by)
ISBN: 1498563880     ISBN-13: 9781498563888
Publisher: Lexington Books
OUR PRICE:   $41.57  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Body Language & Nonverbal Communication
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
Dewey: 305.560
LCCN: 2012537745
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.87 lbs) 268 pages
 
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Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.