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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... bodily ideals , not just demonstrate biological neces- sities . Are you intrigued ? Keep reading . Human bodies are not simply biological organisms . Humans are also so- cial organisms whose bodies bear the imprint of social interaction ...
... bodily ideals , not just demonstrate biological neces- sities . Are you intrigued ? Keep reading . Human bodies are not simply biological organisms . Humans are also so- cial organisms whose bodies bear the imprint of social interaction ...
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... bodily po- tentialities , our bodies are constantly being gendered — that is , encouraged to par- ticipate in ( heterosexual ) gender conformity . Embodied knowledge is gained through bodily practices . Mind and body are not experienced ...
... bodily po- tentialities , our bodies are constantly being gendered — that is , encouraged to par- ticipate in ( heterosexual ) gender conformity . Embodied knowledge is gained through bodily practices . Mind and body are not experienced ...
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... bodily necessity . In our everyday lives we are so practiced at conforming the uses of our bodies to gendered expectations that we assume our comfort with those practices comes from nature . In this book , we wish to reverse the causal ...
... bodily necessity . In our everyday lives we are so practiced at conforming the uses of our bodies to gendered expectations that we assume our comfort with those practices comes from nature . In this book , we wish to reverse the causal ...
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... bodily capacities . For example , it is traditional for men to open doors for women . However , there is no physiological reason for this expectation . Women and men both have hands with opposable thumbs such that door opening is ...
... bodily capacities . For example , it is traditional for men to open doors for women . However , there is no physiological reason for this expectation . Women and men both have hands with opposable thumbs such that door opening is ...
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... bodily difference and capability into two greatly oversimplified groups , ignoring most of women's actions and capabilities and men's inabilities or choices to be less active ( as well as a whole category of intersexed people , whom we ...
... bodily difference and capability into two greatly oversimplified groups , ignoring most of women's actions and capabilities and men's inabilities or choices to be less active ( as well as a whole category of intersexed people , whom we ...
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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