Gendering BodiesRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 5 ago 2007 - 304 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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... find the endnotes too de- tailed , feel free to read past them . We hope that our style of writing and sto- rytelling will make the ideas widely accessible and useful to the broadest audience . NOTES 1. Some have approached this problem ...
... find the endnotes too de- tailed , feel free to read past them . We hope that our style of writing and sto- rytelling will make the ideas widely accessible and useful to the broadest audience . NOTES 1. Some have approached this problem ...
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... find selectively in the world of social practice . Lorber writes , " Gendered people do not emerge from physiology or hormones but from the exigencies of social order , from the need for reliable division of the work of food pro ...
... find selectively in the world of social practice . Lorber writes , " Gendered people do not emerge from physiology or hormones but from the exigencies of social order , from the need for reliable division of the work of food pro ...
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... find in each situation . It is useful to note that what moms do , we expect to be done inside ; whereas what dads do , we ex- pect to be done outside . Hence , context is extremely important in our un- derstanding of each situation ...
... find in each situation . It is useful to note that what moms do , we expect to be done inside ; whereas what dads do , we ex- pect to be done outside . Hence , context is extremely important in our un- derstanding of each situation ...
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... find it unfortunate that the national discussion of being “ on the down low " seems to target primarily black men as those who engage in clandestine sex with other men . As documented famously by Laud Humphreys ' Tea Room Trade in 1970 ...
... find it unfortunate that the national discussion of being “ on the down low " seems to target primarily black men as those who engage in clandestine sex with other men . As documented famously by Laud Humphreys ' Tea Room Trade in 1970 ...
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... find an original function to gender . While there are historical explanations for some components of gender ( for example , dividing labor within households dur- ing certain economic production systems ) , suggesting that we've " just ...
... find an original function to gender . While there are historical explanations for some components of gender ( for example , dividing labor within households dur- ing certain economic production systems ) , suggesting that we've " just ...
Índice
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Surveillance and Accountability | 81 |
Measurable Inequalities and their Effects on Bodies | 149 |
Gender Agency and Resistance | 197 |
A World without Dichotomies? | 237 |
References | 251 |
Index | 273 |
About the Authors | 287 |
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