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Attentive to the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history, the contributors provide historically grounded insights into the transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S. Army to Cold War ideals of American feminine beauty, and from ""body counts"" as metrics of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in the United States as public health threats.

Regardless of how a person spends her or his day, in a classroom, in work or outside employment, whatever our thoughts, beliefs and experiences of life, all living is embodied. We are of and within our bodies. During the last thirty years, social scientists have increasingly turned their attention to the body as a site of both theoretical engagement and empirical exploration. Recently, public discourse has also become preoccupied with embodied debates: the obesity crisis and the London 2012 Paralympics have located the body firmly in the realm of public interest. The new essays collected in Co

Global hatred & constructions of the "other" are discussed with reference to the body, particularly in Nazi Germany. Fear of difference often translates into hatred of the other. Politics based on hatred requires that representations of the other be believed if political aims are to be achieved. The body is used to represent the other because of its visible nature. The symbolization of the body can be traced back to racial & sexual borders, with women & ethnic minorities most typically linked through their bodies to outsider status. Women also represent the state -- the rape of women in ethnic wars represents a conquering of the nation -- while at the same time are kept distanced from it as mothers & daughters. A. Cole

Thanks to their arising abilities to influence the human lifestyle, along with reducing the healthcare systems&rsquo ; cost, wireless body area networks (WBANs) still form a strongly growing research field. Recent advances focus on the opportunities of coexistence and communication between a group of WBANs, that will forward the sensing data, using persons as network relays, until reaching a remote analysis server or cloud servers via the Internet, forming thus a body-to-body network (BBN). Such new-style networks support a range of innovative and promising applications, including ubiquitous healthcare (U-health), interactive games, and military, to cite a few. In this paper, we first present the evolution of the single WBAN concept to the cooperative network of multiple WBANs, giving rise to the BBN concept. A synopsis of the WBAN and BBN respective standards and applications is given, and the emerging BBN challenges are highlighted. Then, we present and discuss the existing WBAN proposals, especially the candidate WBAN protocols that could be adapted and used in BBNs, focusing on four intrinsically related axes of great importance for BBN design: energy efficiency, mobility prediction, quality of service (QoS) and security. Further BBN open issues are also investigated, namely, the wireless propagation between humans carrying wearable devices, the interference, storage and privacy issues as well as the heterogeneity of BBN devices and traffic.

It is posited that cosmic effects -- spontaneous ways of symbolizing a kind of idea that is not necessarily coherent -- are present whenever the structure of the body is used as a metaphor for larger structures. Why cosmic effects are sometimes elaborate & rich & at other times scattered & poorly developed is explored, giving anthropological examples -- eg, the Berber, whose cosmic effects center around the concepts of east & west. It is argued that when the will to enclose the community is weak, cosmic effects are poorly developed; when the will to enclose it is strong (as in our own civilization, with its individualism, competition between equals, concern with political power, & vertical orientation), the rich cosmic effects make use of the closure of the body's limits to symbolize community closure. 6 References. V. Wagener

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Seduction of Modern Spain -- Introduction: Gendered Metaphors -- 1 The Anatomy of Francoist Power -- 2 (De)limiting Women's True Nature: Writing Women's Bodies onto Francoist Body Politic -- 3 Fallen Women: Public Morality in Transition -- 4 Perfect Wives and Mothers -- 5 Modern Women's Docile Bodies -- 6 Strangers in the Dark -- Conclusion: Carmen No Longer -- Epilogue: Viva La Pepa!: Body Politic and the Transition to Democracy -- Appendix: Statistical Data -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

The present investigation was conducted in the herd of pure bred Sahiwal cows maintained at Bull Mother Experimental Farm (BMEF) and Government Cattle Breeding Farm (CBF), Anjora, Durg (Chhattisgarh). A total of 193 adult female Sahiwal cattle over three years of age were used in the experiment. The animals were grouped into seven age groups, i.e. 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7,7-8,>8 years old, and overall. Body weight was found to be significantly (P less than 0.01) and positively correlated with height at withers (r= 0.58 to 0.73), body length (r= 0.56 to 0.76) and heart girth (r= 0.57 to 0.80) in these groups. The relatively high value of coefficient of correlation between live body weight and heart girth assumed to be more significant indicator of live body weight in Sahiwal cattle.

The gender politics of horror cinema are ambiguous and ideologically complex. In 2007, film-maker Eli Roth generated considerable debate when he claimed that his film Hostel Part II (2007) was a feminist horror film. More recently, awardwinning screenwriter Diablo Cody generated a similar
uproar when she likewise claimed that her film Jennifer's Body (Kusama 2009) was feminist. In both cases, the attacks directed at Roth and Cody stemmed as much from animosity towards their very public personas as from their films' content. These attacks also stemmed partly from long-standing
prejudices against horror films as vehicles for violently reinforcing patriarchy, and from the fact that these film-makers, in speaking about feminism, were speaking on behalf of a generalized, unified and coherent entity that most feminists would argue does not actually exist. This article
analyses the claims made by Roth and Cody and the outcry generated by these claims. Moreover, this article considers whether the contemporary horror film can legitimately serve as a vehicle for forging feminist statements, given both the nature of the horror film and the many competing and
contradictory ideas of what constitutes feminism.

Intro -- Impressum -- Digitale Bildkulturen -- Prolog -- Pumping Icon. Das Leben der Bilder im Gym -- Ausstellungskörper. Vom Gym zum gläsernen Atelier -- Tätowierung, Digitalisierung und Körper als Quellcode -- Corona-Workouts, Funktionelles Training -- Fit Follows Function. -- Altes Training in neuen Medien -- #GirlsWhoLift. High Heels und High Strength -- Epilog -- Anmerkungen -- Abbildungsnachweis -- Über den Autor.

Introduction -- Caring for the sick, helping the poor : the development of hospitals in Shanghai -- Protecting life, controlling the city : the origins and development of the Shanghai Municipal Public Health Bureau -- Teaching about health, mobilizing the masses : hygiene campaigns in Shanghai -- Selling hygiene, supporting nations : health, hygiene, and commercial culture -- Conclusion.