| Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse Contributor(s): Thomas, Jamie A. (Editor), Jackson, Christina (Editor), Thomas, Jamie A. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1498563864 ISBN-13: 9781498563864 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $115.83 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Body Language & Nonverbal Communication - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 305.560 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |