The American Body in Context An Anthology

The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and simultaneously an object for others to observe and ev

Jessica Johnston is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where she teaches courses on contemporary American culture, deviance in America, power and knowledge in corporate America, and issues of identity and qualitative methodologies.

Introduction

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Part I Minds and Bodies

1

(60)

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Descartes Goes to Hollywood: Mind, Body, and Gender in Contemporary Cyborg Cinema

11

(20)

Samantha Holland

The Lived Experience of Disability

31

(18)

S. Kay Toombs

Souls in Silicon

49

(12)

Frederik Pohl

Hans Moravec

Part II Social Bodies

61

(116)

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The Body in Consumer Culture

79

(24)

Mike Fetherstone

The Embodiment of Masculinity: Cultural, Psychological, and Behavioral Dimensions

103

(18)

Marc E. Mishkind

Judith Rodin

Lisa R. Silberstein

Ruth H. Striegel-Moore

``Material Girl'': The Effacements of Postmodern Culture

121

(24)

Susan Bordo

Michael Jordan's Family Values: Marketing, Meaning, and Post-Reagan America

145

(30)

Mary G. McDonald

Concord Watch Advertisement

175

(2)

Part III Disciplined Bodies

177

(70)

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On Blowing One's Nose

189

(12)

Norbert Elias

Medicine as an Institution of Social Control

201

(20)

Irving Kenneth Zola

Put Your Hands in Your Own Laps: Discipining the Student Body

221

(20)

Barbara Kamler

Rod Maclean

Jo-Anne Reid

Alyson Simpson

The Visible Man: The Execution and Electronic Afterlife

241

(6)

Joseph Paul Jernigan

Part IV Resisting Bodies

247

(72)

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Body Narratives, Body Boundaies

257

(16)

Emily Martin

Firm but Shapely, Fit but Sexy, Strong but Thin: The Postmodern Aerobicizing Female Bodies

273

(38)

Pirkko Markula

Heavy Judgment: A Sister Talks about the Pain of ``Living Large''

311

(8)

Deborah Gregory

Glossary

319

(6)

References

325

(4)

Suggestions for Further Reading

329

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The American Body in Context An Anthology

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