The Oxford handbook of the sociology of body and embodiment / / edited by Natalie Boero and Katherine Mason.

• Superior document: Oxford handbooks online
• TeilnehmendeR: Boero, Natalie, 1974-; Mason, Katherine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Oxford University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2019; 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford handbooks online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Also issued in print: 2020.

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of "nature" and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The volume is divided into three main parts: Bodies and Methodology; Marginalized Bodies; and Embodied Sociology. Sociologists contributing to the first two parts focus on the body and the ways it is given meaning, regulated, and subjected to legal and medical oversight in a variety of social contexts (particularly when the body in question violates norms for how a culture believes bodies "ought" to behave or appear). Sociologists contributing to the last part use the bodily as a lens through which to study social institutions and experiences.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward a Sociology of the Body / Katherine Mason, Natalie Boero -- Animal, Mechanical and Me: Organ Transplantation and the Ambiguity of Embodiment / Gill Haddow -- Aging, Gender, and the Body / Laura Hurd -- Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology / Cary Gabriel Costello -- Male Breast Cancer in the Public Imagination / Piper Sledge -- Good-looking Men Require Hard-working Women: The Labor of Consumption in the Grooming Industry / Kristen Barber -- Feeding and Fasting Bodies / Jaita Talukdar -- Contrasting Scientific Discourses of Skin Lightening in Domestic and Global Contexts / Celeste Vaughan Curington, Miliann Kang -- Methodologies for Categories in Motion / Maxine Leeds Craig -- Contesting Lyme Disease / Sonny Nordmarken -- Unruly Bodies: Figurative Violence and The State's Responses to The Black Panther Party / Randolph Hohle -- Race, Phenotype, and Nationality in Brazil and the United States / Tiffany D. Joseph -- The Aesthetic Labor of Ethnographers / Kjerstin Gruys, David J. Hutson -- Bodies That Don't Matter, But Labor That Does: The Low Wage Male Migrant in Singapore and Dubai / Laavanya Kathiravelu -- Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care / Elise Paradis, Warren Mark Liew, Myles Leslie -- Contesting New Markets for Bodily Knowledge: When and How Experts Draw the Line / Rene Almeling -- Pregnant Embodiment and Field Research / Jennifer Randles -- The Artificial Pancreas in Cyborg Bodies / Anthony Ryan Hatch, Julia T. Gordon, Sonya R. Sternlieb -- Managing Risky Bodies: From Pregnancy to Vaccination / Jennifer A. Reich -- / Brian Lande -- The Place of the Body in Resistance to Intimate Partner Violence: What Do We Know? / Valli Rajah, Meg Osborn -- Sensory Experience and Method / Kelvin E. Y. Low, Noorman Abdullah -- Mixed Methods in Body and Embodiment Research / Samantha Kwan, Trenton M. Haltom -- YouTube Vlogs as Illness Narratives: Methodological Consideration / Natalie Kay Fullenkamp -- Representations of Fatness by Experts and the Media and How This Shapes Attitudes / Abigail C. Saguy -- Health at Every Size (HAES) as a Reform (Social) Movement within Public Health: A Situational Analysis / Natalie Ingraham -- Fat as a Floating Signifier: Race, Weight, and Femininity in the National Imaginary / Sabrina Strings.