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 body-as well
as how the body is invested with meaning. Body Studies provides a
wealth of pedagogic features for ease of teaching and learning:
ethnographic case studies, boxes covering contemporary
controversies, news stories, and legislative issues, as well as
chapter summaries, further reading recommendations, and key terms.
This book will appeal to students and teachers of sociology,
anthropology, cultural studies, women's studies, gender studies,
and ethnic studies.
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