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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... femininity and masculinity tends to train us toward conformity to bodily ideals , not just demonstrate biological neces- sities . Are you intrigued ? Keep reading . Human bodies are not simply biological organisms . Humans are also so ...
... femininity and masculinity tends to train us toward conformity to bodily ideals , not just demonstrate biological neces- sities . Are you intrigued ? Keep reading . Human bodies are not simply biological organisms . Humans are also so ...
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... femininity , men , and women where we refer to gendered presentations and experiences . Also , we try to avoid unnecessary gendering in our own language and use the generic pronoun " they " rather than the dualistic pronouns " he or she ...
... femininity , men , and women where we refer to gendered presentations and experiences . Also , we try to avoid unnecessary gendering in our own language and use the generic pronoun " they " rather than the dualistic pronouns " he or she ...
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... femininity and masculinity ) are products of the social world , not nature . So , like laws , U.S. currency , and the Western calendar , gender is a system of organizing that Western cultures have devised to organize and make sense of ...
... femininity and masculinity ) are products of the social world , not nature . So , like laws , U.S. currency , and the Western calendar , gender is a system of organizing that Western cultures have devised to organize and make sense of ...
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... femininity ( including expectations of physical strength of fe- male bodies ) have always been a matter of context and have shifted across time and social strata . Further , notions of appropriate behavior for female and male people dif ...
... femininity ( including expectations of physical strength of fe- male bodies ) have always been a matter of context and have shifted across time and social strata . Further , notions of appropriate behavior for female and male people dif ...
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... femininity as normative - a given - in our everyday lives , it need not be so . CONSTRUCTING DICHOTOMOUS BODIES Woman is a pair of ovaries with a human being attached , whereas man is a human being furnished with a pair of testes . -Dr ...
... femininity as normative - a given - in our everyday lives , it need not be so . CONSTRUCTING DICHOTOMOUS BODIES Woman is a pair of ovaries with a human being attached , whereas man is a human being furnished with a pair of testes . -Dr ...
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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