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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... women and men use different rooms to - shall we say - evacuate waste ? Clearly evacuation of waste is a physiological necessity on the micro level . If one cannot evacuate waste , the body shuts down and one dies . Addi- tionally , at a ...
... women and men use different rooms to - shall we say - evacuate waste ? Clearly evacuation of waste is a physiological necessity on the micro level . If one cannot evacuate waste , the body shuts down and one dies . Addi- tionally , at a ...
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... female or male , but this is not so . We will return to this point shortly . Gendered expectations produce the very real effect of dichotomizing in body knowledge - how we come to know , understand , and use our bodies and how we ...
... female or male , but this is not so . We will return to this point shortly . Gendered expectations produce the very real effect of dichotomizing in body knowledge - how we come to know , understand , and use our bodies and how we ...
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... bodies emerge from nature , gender — as a part of social organization - defines what is " appropriate " in the uses of our bodies . Lorber continues , " I am not saying that physical dif- ferences between male and female bodies don't ...
... bodies emerge from nature , gender — as a part of social organization - defines what is " appropriate " in the uses of our bodies . Lorber continues , " I am not saying that physical dif- ferences between male and female bodies don't ...
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... women's reproductive bodies using many telling metaphors . Most frequently , perhaps , female bodies have been thought of and treated as vessels or containers , as we will see in chapter 3. Another common metaphor in the modern age has ...
... women's reproductive bodies using many telling metaphors . Most frequently , perhaps , female bodies have been thought of and treated as vessels or containers , as we will see in chapter 3. Another common metaphor in the modern age has ...
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... bodies are understood as active and women's bodies as pas- sive . This dichotomy is an interesting reduction of all ... female person who is " flat - chested . " Much of this gendering of body parts happens in the use of slang terms in ...
... bodies are understood as active and women's bodies as pas- sive . This dichotomy is an interesting reduction of all ... female person who is " flat - chested . " Much of this gendering of body parts happens in the use of slang terms in ...
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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