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Book SynopsisExplores the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century
Trade ReviewMissing Bodies is a well-written book that asks scholars of rhetoric productive questions not only about discursive constructs that constrain, expose, or advertise the body, but also the methods through which we gather information about the role of the body in discourse. * Journal of Advanced Composition *
Overall the book opened my eyes to the experiences of the missing and what they mean for the rest of us who are visible and can do something about giving them a voice. It also makes me ask more questions about other missing bodies not mentioned, which, I believe, is the fundamental intent of the book. * PsycCritiques *
As a commentary on the consequences of neoliberalism, a critique of contemporary Western culture, and a recovery effort o fthe unseen, Missing Bodies is a provocative and thought provoking work that situates our understandings of the bodies that are seen and obscured in new light. -- Erin L. Pullen, Sociology of Health and Illness
This book is written in a vivid style, endowed with a straightforward and pleasant way of expressing the authors' engaged analysis. -- Claire Beaudevin * Social Anthropology *
Missing Bodies focuses our attention on what is not there, and thus brilliantly illuminates just what is! This is a creative, thoughtful, exciting book, a fine contribution to the growing literature on the sociology of the body. -- Barbara Katz Rothman,author of Recreating Motherhood
Shows the structural and symbolic processes underlying bodily erasure and exposure; a major accomplishment. -- Nelly Oudshoorn,author of The Male Pill
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Bodies We See, and Some That Are Not Here Part I: Innocents 2 Seen but Not Heard: Consequences of Innocence Lost 3 Calculated Losses: Taking the Measure of Infant Mortality Part II: Exposed 4 Biodisaster: "The Greatest Weapon of Mass Destruction on Earth" 5 Fluid Matters: Human Biomonitoring as Gendered Surveillance Part III: Heroes 6 "They Used Me": Manufacturing Heroes in Wartime 7 It Takes Balls: Lance Armstrong and the Triumph of American Masculinity 8 Conclusion: Excavations Notes References Index About the Authors
