| Author/Contributor(s): | Bobel, Chris ; Kwan, Samantha |
| Publisher: | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Date: | 05/28/2019 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Table of Contents Introduction Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan Part I: Going Natural - Body Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair Breanne Fahs - Radical Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment Monica Basile - Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy Anne Esacove Living Resistance: - Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging Medical Advice Following Mastectomy Joanna Rankin - My Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the Kink in My Hair . . . Today Cheryl Thompson - Living My Full Life: My Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder Christina Fisanick - Pretty Brown: Encounters with My Skin Color Praveena Lakshmanan Part II: Representing Resistance - Blood as Resistance: Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism Shayda Kafai - Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet?: Resistance through Parody in the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend Katherine Phelps - The Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women's Oppositional Embodiment Kelly Grove and Doug Schrock Living Resistance: - A Cystor's Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative Femininity Ledah McKellar - Old Bags Take a Stand: A Face Off with Ageism in America Faith Baum and Lori Petchers - Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist Disembodiment Haley Gentile - I Am a Person Now: Autism, Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome Alyssa Hillary Part III: Creating Community, Disrupting Assumptions - Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The Complexity of Black Girls' Resistance Stephanie D. Sears and Maxine Leeds Craig - Big Gay Men's Performative Protest Against Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth Jason Whitesel - What's Love Got to Do with It?: The Embodied Activism of Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare Sheila M. Katz Living Resistance: - Your Signing Is So Beautiful!: The Radical Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public Rachel Kolb - Two Shakes Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer - Showing Our Muslim: Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox Sara Rehman - Doing Out: A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the Bronx Mark Broomfield - Everybody: Making Fat Radio for All of Us Cat Pausé Part IV: Transforming Institutions and Ideologies - Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life J. E. Sumerau - Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into Law J. Shoshanna Ehrlich - Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton Twirlers' Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain Trenton M. Haltom - That Gentle Somebody: Rethinking Black Female Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South Africa Taylor Riley Living Resistance: