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The Oxford Handbook of T H E S O C IO L O G Y OF B ODY A N D E M B ODI M E N T The Oxford Handbook of THE SOCIOLOGY OF BODY AND EMBODIMENT Edited by NATALIE BOERO and KATHERINE MASON 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Boero, Natalie, 1974– editor. | Mason, Katherine, editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of the sociology of body and embodiment / edited by Natalie Boero and Katherine Mason. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] | Summary: “The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of “nature” and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The volume is divided into three main parts: Bodies and Methodology; Marginalized Bodies; and Embodied Sociology. Sociologists contributing to the first two parts focus on the body and the ways it is given meaning, regulated, and subjected to legal and medical oversight in a variety of social contexts (particularly when the body in question violates norms for how a culture believes bodies “ought” to behave or appear). Sociologists contributing to the last part use the bodily as a lens through which to study social institutions and experiences. These social settings range from personal decisions about medical treatment to programs for teaching police recruits how to use physical force, from social movement tactics to countries' understandings of race and national identity. Many chapters throughout the book offer extended methodological reflections, providing guidance on how to conduct sociological research on the body and, at times, acknowledging the role the authors’ own bodies play in developing their knowledge of the research subject”—Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020018279 (print) | LCCN 2020018280 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190842475 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190842499 (epub) | ISBN 9780190842505 Subjects: LCSH: Human body—Social aspects. | Marginality, Social. Classification: LCC HM636 .O94 2020 (print) | LCC HM636 (ebook) | DDC 306.4—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020018279 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020018280 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America. Contents About the Editors ix About the Contributors xi 1. Toward a Sociology of the Body 1 Katherine Mason and Natalie Boero 2. Methodologies for Categories in Motion 21 Maxine Leeds Craig 3. Pregnant Embodiment and Field Research 37 Jennifer Randles 4. Sensory Experience as Method 53 Kelvin E. Y. Low and Noorman Abdullah 5. Mixed Methods in Body and Embodiment Research 69 Samantha Kwan and Trenton M. Haltom 6. YouTube Vlogs as Illness Narratives: Methodological Consideration 87 Natalie Kay Fullenkamp 7. Representations of Fatness by Experts and the Media and How This Shapes Attitudes 105 Abigail C. Saguy 8. Health at Every Size (HAES™) as a Reform (Social) Movement within Public Health: A Situational Analysis 121 Natalie Ingraham 9. Fat as a Floating Signifier: Race, Weight, and Femininity in the National Imaginary 145 Sabrina Strings 10. Animal, Mechanical, and Me: Organ Transplantation and the Ambiguity of Embodiment 165 Gill Haddow vi contents 11. Aging, Gender, and the Body 183 Laura Hurd 12. Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology 199 Cary Gabriel Costello 13. Male Breast Cancer in the Public Imagination 221 Piper Sledge 14. Good-Looking Men Require Hard-Working Women: The Labor of Consumption in the Grooming Industry 239 Kristen Barber 15. Feeding and Fasting Bodies 257 Jaita Talukdar 16. Contrasting Scientific Discourses of Skin Lightening in Domestic and Global Contexts 273 Celeste Vaughan Curington and Miliann Kang 17. Unruly Bodies: Figurative Violence and the State’s Responses to the Black Panther Party 293 Randolph Hohle 18. Race, Phenotype, and Nationality in Brazil and the United States 309 Tiffany D. Joseph 19. The Aesthetic Labor of Ethnographers 327 Kjerstin Gruys and David J. Hutson 20. Bodies That Don’t Matter, but Labor That Does: The Low-Wage Male Migrant in Singapore and Dubai 345 Laavanya Kathiravelu 21. Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care 361 Elise Paradis, Warren Mark Liew, and Myles Leslie 22. Contesting New Markets for Bodily Knowledge: When and How Experts Draw the Line 379 Rene Almeling 23. Managing Risky Bodies: From Pregnancy to Vaccination 397 Jennifer A. Reich contents vii 24. The Artificial Pancreas in Cyborg Bodies 413 Anthony Ryan Hatch, Julia T. Gordon, and Sonya R. Sternlieb 25. Contesting Lyme Disease 431 Sonny Nordmarken 26. “Laying Hands” and Learning to Touch and Grab in the Police Academy 447 Brian Lande 27. The Place of the Body in Resistance to Intimate Partner Violence: What Do We Know? 469 Valli Rajah and Meg Osborn Index 491 About the Editors Natalie Boero is a Professor of Sociology at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. Her work focuses on body size, health care inequalities, and qualitative methodology. Her current research focuses on illness narratives of dialysis patients with end-stage renal disease. Her work has appeared in journals such as Body and Society, Qualitative Sociology, Critical Public Health, and Fat Studies. Her first book, Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American “Obesity Epidemic,” was published by Rutgers University Press in 2012. Katherine Mason is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on health and body inequalities, with a particular focus on how people’s care and cultivation of their bodies serves as a vector for the reproduction of social stratification. Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Problems, Social Politics, Fat Studies, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and she is developing a book with NYU Press on the body-care practices of working- and middle-class mothers.
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