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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... and practices are at work here to keep us from recognizing the vast diversity among hu- mans . How does this happen ? Why Only Two ? Understanding Dualisms and Typifications Before understanding Creating a World of Dichotomy 11.
... and practices are at work here to keep us from recognizing the vast diversity among hu- mans . How does this happen ? Why Only Two ? Understanding Dualisms and Typifications Before understanding Creating a World of Dichotomy 11.
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... Typifications Before understanding how gender works , we need to first examine two im- portant attributes about Western thought - dualistic thinking and typifica- tion . Both dualistic thinking and typification create the categorization ...
... Typifications Before understanding how gender works , we need to first examine two im- portant attributes about Western thought - dualistic thinking and typifica- tion . Both dualistic thinking and typification create the categorization ...
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... Typifications are ab- stract notions that group physical objects into manageable categories ( Zerubavel 1996 ) . If ... typifications are useful and necessary . Without the ability to typify , language itself would not exist . So ...
... Typifications are ab- stract notions that group physical objects into manageable categories ( Zerubavel 1996 ) . If ... typifications are useful and necessary . Without the ability to typify , language itself would not exist . So ...
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... typification . Imagine the following situation . A woman is in the kitchen at 7 o'clock on a Tuesday morning browning ... typifications that already exist blind us to the possible ways in which we might see or imagine each interaction ...
... typification . Imagine the following situation . A woman is in the kitchen at 7 o'clock on a Tuesday morning browning ... typifications that already exist blind us to the possible ways in which we might see or imagine each interaction ...
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... typifications , rather than open up our categories . That is , we see Dianne as an outlier and we " throw her out . " All of a sudden , she be- comes " athlete " and not " woman , " so our category for " woman " does not have to be ...
... typifications , rather than open up our categories . That is , we see Dianne as an outlier and we " throw her out . " All of a sudden , she be- comes " athlete " and not " woman , " so our category for " woman " does not have to be ...
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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