Gendering BodiesRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008 - 288 páginas Gendering Bodies explains how the social world shapes our physical bodies and how our bodies shape the social world. In this remarkable investigation into contemporary ideas of gender, sociologists Crawley, Foley, and Shehan argue that bodies are constantly being gendered, or encouraged to participate in (heterosexual) gender conformity. This engendering influences nutrition practices, work and employment choices, dieting, working out, cosmetic surgery, sexual practices, and training-or lack thereof-in sports or fitness. This is an accessible, yet comprehensive, sociological inquiry into a theory of the gendered body. |
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... believe to be " normal . " It is time to look much more closely at how the social perform- ance of gender affects the physical body and how gender messages encour- age us to believe in the presumed " natural " chasm between femaleness ...
... believe to be " normal . " It is time to look much more closely at how the social perform- ance of gender affects the physical body and how gender messages encour- age us to believe in the presumed " natural " chasm between femaleness ...
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... believe we are freely in- dividual , Mead argues that thinking of the self as a social structure makes fully free individuality impossible . Even choosing to directly oppose the norm is a reaction to the norm . So individuality is ...
... believe we are freely in- dividual , Mead argues that thinking of the self as a social structure makes fully free individuality impossible . Even choosing to directly oppose the norm is a reaction to the norm . So individuality is ...
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... believe to be real , that women are very fine ath- letes , has come to be real . What would happen if we stopped believing that female bodies are innately less able than male bodies ? We do not propose to know the answer to this ...
... believe to be real , that women are very fine ath- letes , has come to be real . What would happen if we stopped believing that female bodies are innately less able than male bodies ? We do not propose to know the answer to this ...
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Gender Performances | 37 |
Surveillance and Accountability | 81 |
Measurable Inequalities and Their | 149 |
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