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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Crawley, Sara L., 1966- Gendering bodies. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008 (OCoLC)652278048 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sara L Crawley; Lara J Foley; Constance L Shehan |
| ISBN: | 9780742559561 0742559564 9780742559578 0742559572 |
| OCLC Number: | 85622867 |
| Description: | xvi, 288 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Series editors' foreword -- Preface : Gendering and embodiment -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Creating a world of dichotomy : categorizing sex and gendering cultural messages -- 2. Doing "woman" / doing "man" : gender performances that produce "reality" -- 3. Becoming our own jailers : surveillance and accountability -- 4. But gender is real : measurable inequalities and their effects on bodies -- 5. Undisciplining gender : gender agency and resistance -- 6. A world without dichotomies? -- References -- Index -- About the authors. |
| Series Title: | Gender lens series. |
| Responsibility: | Sara L. Crawley, Lara J. Foley, Constance L. Shehan. |
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The authors position this book as an account that will be equally useful for undergraduate students and academic researchers. Recommended. * CHOICE * Gendering Bodies is a clear, engaging, and exciting book that will make you stop and consider the construction of the world around you.... The authors communicate a strong passion for helping students understand the complexities of gender in contemporary American society.... The authors do an expert job of presenting complex and theoretical arguments in a way that students will be able to digest and understand.... Students will appreciate that, unlike in many textbooks, these authors are willing to talk about their own experiences.... This book is an excellent guide and translator for sometimes hard-to-manage concepts in post-modern and feminist discourse.... Gendering Bodies will energize students to see just how much of our everyday lives and cultural notions of gender are played out on the body. * Feminist Teacher, 2010 Vol. 20.1 * Gender is embodied; bodies are gendered. While many have insisted on a more corporeal understanding of gender's bodies and the body's genders, Gendering Bodies finally sorts out this basic, but often difficult relationship. Gracefully written, theoretically astute, and sprinkled with accessible anecdotes, Gendering Bodies will be an instant hit in and out of classrooms around the country. -- Michael Kimmel, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University Read more...
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