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pt. 1. Understanding the body from a social and cultural perspective -- pt. 2. The scientific and biomedical body -- pt. 3. Mapping difference onto bodies -- pt. 4. Bodies and privilege -- pt. 5. Extraordinary bodies -- pt. 6. State and corporate regulation of the body -- pt. 7. Bodies of the future.

"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."--Back cover.

For thousands of years, in the myths and folktales of people around the world, animals have spoken in human tongues. Western and non-Western literary and folkloric traditions are filled with both speaking animals, some of whom even narrate or write their own autobiographies. Animals speak, famously, in children's stories and in cartoons and films, and today, social networking sites and blogs are both sites in which animals—primarily pets—write about their daily lives and interests. Speaking for Animals is a compilation of chapters written from a variety of disciplines that attempts to get a handle on this cross cultural and longstanding tradition of animal speaking and writing. It looks at speaking animals in literature, religious texts, poetry, social networking sites, comic books, and in animal welfare materials and even library catalogs, and addresses not just the "whys" of speaking animals, but the implications, for the animals and for ourselves.

An exhaustive listing of books, journals, articles, films, conferences, college programs, organizations and websites from the new and exciting discipline of Human-Animal Studies. This information was gathered by leading academics in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences, and is the only reference of its kind.

Hybrid vigor : interbreeding cultural studies and human-animal studies / Annie Potts and Philip Armstrong -- Teaching animal movies / Pete Porter -- History from below : animals as historical subjects / Georgina M. Montgomery and Linda Kalof -- Animal writes : literature and the discourse of species / Carrie Rohman -- Examined lives : teaching human-animal studies in philosophy / Mylan Engel Jr. and Kathie Jenni -- Religion and other animals / Paul Waldau -- Teaching difference : sex, gender, species / Lori Gruen and Kari Weil