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The politics of the body is often highly contested, culturally specific, and controlled, and this book calls our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity.With governments regulating bodies in ways that mark the political boundaries of who is a citizen, worthy of protection and rights, as well as those who transgress socially proscribed norms, the contributors to this volume offer a systematic investigation of both theoretical and empirical account of bodily differences broadly defined. These chapters, diverse in both the populations and the political behaviours examined, as well as the methodological approaches employed, showcase the significance of body politics in a way few edited works in political science currently do.Arguing that the body is an important site to understand power relations, this book will be of interest to those studying the unequal application of rights to women, racial and ethnic minorities, the LGBTQ community, and people with disabilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Politics, Groups, and Identities

The colorful illustrations in this picture book will help children learn to love their bodies from an early age and appreciate all the wonderful things their bodies do. The book promotes a healthy attitude which will help children understand that all bodies are different and encourage them to take good care of their bodies throughout their lives

Examines how major social forces -- capital, technology, science, & markets -- "become embedded in the psychophysical nexus of individual human bodies so thoroughly that machinic performances become close to instinctual operations." A critical rereading is offered of machine technology in modern capitalist society to explore how the body, "as psyche & physique, mediates the machinic force of states (the body politic) & markets (the body shop)." As an exercise in "deep technology," the dynamics of bodies & bodybuilding are explored to reveal both corporal & ontological assumptions inherent in modern nation-states & markets. The creation of the "technified" body through the use of workout machines such as the Nordic Track/Nordic Flex is analyzed within the social, political, technical, & disciplinary machinations of the "global machine" of capitalism; relations of the individual body to the body shop & body politic are explored. The argument is framed with particular reference to the theories of Thomas Hobbes 1962), Adam Smith (1987), Donna Haraway (1991), Bruno Latour (1993), & William Greider (1996). 28 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Body image can be influenced by a complex interaction of factors ranging between a person's individual thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behaviours regarding their own body, and their perception of what counts as the ideal body within their own social and cultural environment, and in the media. This book explains body dissatisfaction and eating disorder issues, and focuses on developing ways of improving body image, particularly in children and young people. Also includes: worksheets and activities, fast facts, glossary, web links, index

Dress, language, and communication -- Dress and social identity -- Style and styles between fashion and the grotesque -- Taste between common sense and received meaning -- Everyday models -- The face and the gaze -- Degree zero of fashion and the body : the model, the nude, and the doll -- Intertextual strategies and contemporary mythology -- Fashion and cinema -- Wearing black -- Mass fashion : the role of fashion in music -- Time -- Fashion intertexts -- Objects

Examines how major social forces -- capital, technology, science, & markets -- "become embedded in the psychophysical nexus of individual human bodies so thoroughly that machinic performances become close to instinctual operations." A critical rereading is offered of machine technology in modern capitalist society to explore how the body, "as psyche & physique, mediates the machinic force of states (the body politic) & markets (the body shop)." As an exercise in "deep technology," the dynamics of bodies & bodybuilding are explored to reveal both corporal & ontological assumptions inherent in modern nation-states & markets. The creation of the "technified" body through the use of workout machines such as the Nordic Track/Nordic Flex is analyzed within the social, political, technical, & disciplinary machinations of the "global machine" of capitalism; relations of the individual body to the body shop & body politic are explored. The argument is framed with particular reference to the theories of Thomas Hobbes 1962), Adam Smith (1987), Donna Haraway (1991), Bruno Latour (1993), & William Greider (1996). 28 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of contributorsPrefaceChapter 1: Introduction -- Luci Attala and Louise SteelChapter 2: Bodies that co-create: The residues and intimacies of vital materials -- Eloise GovierChapter 3: I am apple -- Luci AttalaChapter 4: Cooled, cured and sedimented: Reforming and edifying the hydrocentric infants of northwestern Amazonia -- Elizabeth RahmenChapter 5: Embodied encounters with the ancestors- Louise SteelChapter 6: 'They roll around in the mud!': Becoming a community of substance -- Kate Nialla Fayers-Kerr. Chapter 7: The resuscitation of the twice-hanged man: Miracles and the body in medieval Swansea -- Harriett WebsterChapter 8: Dead and dusted: Exploring the mutable boundaries of the body -- Ros CoardChapter 9: A cup for any occasion: The materiality of drinking experiences at Kerma -- Carl WalshChapter 10: All fingers, no thumbs: the materiality of a medieval relic -- Janet Burton. GlossaryIndex

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- Artful Research and Ways of Being: Opening the Space -- Body Mapping -- Ethical Issues in Arts-Based Research -- Chapter Overview and Format -- References -- 2 Project Overview and Insights About Body Mapping -- The Anatomy of Adherence Project -- Adherence, Gender, and the Body: An Overview of the Literature -- Methodology -- Analysis -- Knowledge Translation -- Locating Our Participants -- Participants' Perspectives on Body Mapping -- Women -- Men -- Locating Myself

Marge Berer and Omid Salehi on cosmetic surgery and censorship