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OverviewFocusing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jamie A. Thomas , Christina Jackson , Jamie A. Thomas , Christina JacksonPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.576kg ISBN: 9781498563864ISBN 10: 1498563864 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 20 February 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching the Body Through Public-facing Scholarship in Philadelphia How To Use This Book Unit One: The Rational Mind vs. The Criminal Body Preface to Unit One Chapter 1 - Our Own Flesh and Blood: Putting the Body at the Center of Violence and Dehumanization - Krista K. Thomason Chapter 2 - Are We Our Brains? How Early Christianity Shaped Western Ideas About Power, Morality, and Personhood - Jessica Wright Chapter 3 - Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis - Ute Bettray Unit Two: The Deviant and Undesirable Body Preface to Unit Two Chapter 4 - Bias, Brains, and Skulls: Tracing the Legacy of Scientific Racism in the 19th Century Works of Samuel George Morton and Friedrich Tiedemann - Paul Wolff Mitchell and John S. Michael Chapter 5 - Female Vampires as Embodied Critiques of Heteronormativity, Blood-Mixing, and Patriarchy: From Carmilla to Fledgling - Dorisa Costello Chapter 6 - Protest Bodies: The Right to Protect Your Own in Environmental Justice and Redevelopment Battles - Christina Jackson Chapter 7 - Death and the Power of the Young Female Body: Iconic Legal Cases - Barry Furrow Unit Three: The Beautiful Body and Its Parts Preface to Unit Three Chapter 8 - Gray Matters: Social Violence and the Victorian Surgical Textbook - Emily August Chapter 9 - ‘Tuck in Your Derrière’: Butts and Bodies in Ballet and Tap - Kat Richter Chapter 10 - The Year is 2093: Reanimation from Frankenstein to Prometheus as Sci-fi Metaphor for (Dis)Embodied Female Futures and Colonization of Space - Jamie A. ThomasReviewsEmbodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse is a refreshingly interdisciplinary consideration of embodiment as a site of agency, oppression, and knowledge production. It is all too easy, in the face of Western society's enculturated somatophobia, to forget that our bodies are a matrix of sense receptors caught in a web of political constructs; that through the body we both experience and are experienced by the world. As such, the body is intrinsic to the formation of self, other, community, and culture. This text incites a welcome and timely discourse, which honors our lived experience, by making explicit the connections between our corporeal flesh and our cultural foundations. -- Catherine Cabeen, Marymount Manhattan College While intersectional feminist theory has captured the attention of numerous scholar/activists throughout the U.S. academy and beyond, rarely has it been so brilliantly operationalized as is the case in this cross-disciplinary, co-edited anthology. The broad range of themes is breathtaking -scientific racism, transfeminism, American dance, urban development/gentrification, sci-fi films, right-to-die cases, Gray's Anatomy, the relentlessness of racial inequality. Professors Jamie A. Thomas and Christina Jackson have assembled a diverse group of experts whose provocative explorations of the causes and consequences of social inequality over time make visible in new ways the challenges and dangers we now face in the aftermath of a deeply polarizing 2016 Presidential election. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna J. Cooper Professor of Comparative Women's Studies at Spelman College and co-author of GENDER TALK: THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse is a refreshingly interdisciplinary consideration of embodiment as a site of agency, oppression, and knowledge production. It is all too easy, in the face of Western society’s enculturated somatophobia, to forget that our bodies are a matrix of sense receptors caught in a web of political constructs; that through the body we both experience and are experienced by the world. As such, the body is intrinsic to the formation of self, other, community, and culture. This text incites a welcome and timely discourse, which honors our lived experience, by making explicit the connections between our corporeal flesh and our cultural foundations. -- Catherine Cabeen, Marymount Manhattan College While intersectional feminist theory has captured the attention of numerous scholar/activists throughout the U.S. academy and beyond, rarely has it been so brilliantly operationalized as is the case in this cross-disciplinary, co-edited anthology. The broad range of themes is breathtaking —scientific racism, transfeminism, American dance, urban development/gentrification, sci-fi films, right-to-die cases, Gray's Anatomy, the relentlessness of racial inequality. Professors Jamie A. Thomas and Christina Jackson have assembled a diverse group of experts whose provocative explorations of the causes and consequences of social inequality over time make visible in new ways the challenges and dangers we now face in the aftermath of a deeply polarizing 2016 Presidential election. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna J. Cooper Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies at Spelman College and co-author of GENDER TALK: THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Author InformationJamie A. Thomas is assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College. Christina Jackson is assistant professor of sociology at Stockton University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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