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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction: Not Just the Reflexive Reflex: Flesh and Bone in the Social Sciences | p. 1 |
Vulnerable Bodies | |
The Body's Problems with Illness | p. 31 |
Laboring Now: Current Cultural Constructions of Pregnancy, Birth, and Mothering | p. 48 |
Am I Good Enough for My Family? Fetal Genetic Bodies and Prenatal Genetic Testing | p. 66 |
Assume the Position: The Changing Contours of Sexual Violence | p. 80 |
The Phenomenology of Death, Embodiment, and Organ Transplantation | p. 108 |
Chemically Reactive Bodies, Knowledge, and Society | p. 124 |
Bodies as Mediums | |
"Made by the Work": A Century of Laboring Bodies in the United States | p. 147 |
Embodied Capitalism and the Meth Economy | p. 164 |
Extreme Bodies/Extreme Culture | p. 184 |
The Racial Nose | p. 201 |
To Die For: The Semiotic Seductive Power of the Tanned Body | p. 228 |
The Naked Self: Being a Body in Televideo Cybersex | p. 252 |
Extraordinary Bodies | |
Manscaping: The Tangle of Nature, Culture, and Male Body Hair | p. 287 |
Incongruent Bodies: Teaching While Leaking | p. 305 |
Envisioning the Body in Relation: Finding Sex, Changing Sex | p. 317 |
Scars | p. 329 |
Slippery Slopes: Media, Disability, and Adaptive Sports | p. 332 |
Bodies in Media | |
Hey Girl, Am I More Than My Hair? African American Women and Their Struggles with Beauty, Body Image, and Hair | p. 349 |
Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women | p. 367 |
Images of Addiction: The Representation of Illicit Drug Use in Popular Media | p. 384 |
The Ana Sanctuary: Women's Pro-Anorexic Narratives in Cyberspace | p. 399 |
List of Contributors | p. 413 |
Index | p. 417 |
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