Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules

Chris Bobel

ISBN 10: 0826517870 / ISBN 13: 9780826517876

Published by Vanderbilt University Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826517870
• ISBN 13: 9780826517876
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 627 grams

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Synopsis

Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary "body outlaws"—people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden. This collection ventures beyond the conventional focus on the "disciplined body" and instead, examines conformity from the perspective of resisters. By balancing accessibly written original ethnographic research with personal narratives, Embodied Resistance provides a window into the everyday lives of those who defy or violate socially constructed body rules and conventions.

About the Author

Chris Bobel, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Samantha Kwan, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston, are co-editors of Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules and Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations, both published by Vanderbilt.