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In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students.

Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. Its clear, accessible chapters explore, among other things:

  • the measurement and classification of the human body
  • illness and healing
  • the racialized body
  • the gendered body
  • cultural perceptions of beauty
  • new bodily technologies.

This book investigates how power plays an important role in the uses, views, and shapes of the bodyas well as how the body is invested with meaning. Body Studies provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of te

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 12/5/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780415699303, 978-0415699303
      ISBN10: 0415699304
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      Description

      In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students.

      Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. Its clear, accessible chapters explore, among other things:

      • the measurement and classification of the human body
      • illness and healing
      • the racialized body
      • the gendered body
      • cultural perceptions of beauty
      • new bodily technologies.

      This book investigates how power plays an important role in the uses, views, and shapes of the bodyas well as how the body is invested with meaning. Body Studies provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of te

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