The American Body in Context An Anthology

by Johnston, Jessica R.; Holland, Samantha; Toombs, S. Kay; Pohl, Frederik; Moravec, Hans; Featherstone, Mike; Mishkind, Marc E.; Rodin, Judith; Silberstein, Lisa R.; Striegel-Moore, Ruth E.; Bordo, Susan; McDonald, Mary G.; Elias, Norbert; Zola, Irving K.;

• ISBN13: 9780842028592
• ISBN10: 0842028595
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and simultaneously an object for others to observe and ev

Author Biography

Jessica Johnston is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where she teaches courses on contemporary American culture, deviance in America, power and knowledge in corporate America, and issues of identity and qualitative methodologies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Jessica R. Johnston
Part I Minds and Bodies	1	(60)
Jessica R. Johnston
Descartes Goes to Hollywood: Mind, Body, and Gender in Contemporary Cyborg Cinema	11	(20)
Samantha Holland
The Lived Experience of Disability	31	(18)
S. Kay Toombs
Souls in Silicon	49	(12)
Frederik Pohl
Hans Moravec
Part II Social Bodies	61	(116)
Jessica R. Johnston
The Body in Consumer Culture	79	(24)
Mike Fetherstone
The Embodiment of Masculinity: Cultural, Psychological, and Behavioral Dimensions	103	(18)
Marc E. Mishkind
Judith Rodin
Lisa R. Silberstein
Ruth H. Striegel-Moore
``Material Girl'': The Effacements of Postmodern Culture	121	(24)
Susan Bordo
Michael Jordan's Family Values: Marketing, Meaning, and Post-Reagan America	145	(30)
Mary G. McDonald
Concord Watch Advertisement	175	(2)
Part III Disciplined Bodies	177	(70)
Jessica R. Johnston
On Blowing One's Nose	189	(12)
Norbert Elias
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control	201	(20)
Irving Kenneth Zola
Put Your Hands in Your Own Laps: Discipining the Student Body	221	(20)
Barbara Kamler
Rod Maclean
Jo-Anne Reid
Alyson Simpson
The Visible Man: The Execution and Electronic Afterlife	241	(6)
Joseph Paul Jernigan
Part IV Resisting Bodies	247	(72)
Jessica R. Johnston
Body Narratives, Body Boundaies	257	(16)
Emily Martin
Firm but Shapely, Fit but Sexy, Strong but Thin: The Postmodern Aerobicizing Female Bodies	273	(38)
Pirkko Markula
Heavy Judgment: A Sister Talks about the Pain of ``Living Large''	311	(8)
Deborah Gregory
Glossary	319	(6)
References	325	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	329