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Politics of Women's Bodies Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior

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ISBN-10: 0199343799

ISBN-13: 9780199343799

Edition: 4th 2014

Authors: Rose Weitz, Samantha Kwan

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The Politics of Women's Bodies, Fourth Edition, is an anthology covering the issues surrounding women's bodies. Threads running throughout the book include the distribution of power between men and women, how that affects cultural standards, and how those standards subsequently serve as powerful and political tools for controlling women's appearance, sexuality, and behavior. This book fills an important niche not covered by other books: focus on women's bodies, social control, and agency.The new edition includes updated readings which engage diversity and highlight cross-cultural relevance where appropriate.
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Book details

List price: $94.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.10" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Samantha Kwan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. She has published in "Qualitative Health Research, Sociological Inquiry, " and "Teaching Sociology."

Preface
The Social Construction of Women's Bodies
A History of Women's Bodies
Believing Is Seeing: Biology as Ideology
Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools
Medicalization, Natural Childbirth, and Birthing Experiences*
Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory*
The Politics of Sexuality
Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feeling
Daring to Desire: Culture and the Bodies of Adolescent Girls
A Tale of Two Technologies: HPV Vaccination, Male Circumcision, and Sexual Health*
"Get Your Freak On": Sex, Babies, and Images of Black Femininity
Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture
"So Full of Myself as a Chick": Goth Women, Sexual Independence, and Gender Egalitarianism
The Politics of Appearance
Designing Women: Cultural Hegemony and the Exercise of Power among Women Who Have Undergone Elective Mammoplasty
Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power through Resistance and Accommodation
Navigating Public Spaces: Gender, Race, and Body Privilege in Everyday Life*
The Moral Underpinnings of Beauty: A Meaning-Based Explanation for Light and Dark Complexions in Advertising*
Reclaiming the Female Body: Women Body Modifiers and Feminist Debates
The Politics of Behavior
From the "Muscle Moll" to the "Butch" Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sport
Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Poverty and Class in the United States
Backlash and Continuity: The Political Trajectory of Fetal Rights
Hijab and American Muslim Women: Creating the Space for Autonomous Selves*
Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance
Being Undocumented and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Multiple Vulnerabilities through the Lens of Feminist Intersectionality*
Appendix