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The Abject Body and Subversive Femininity --Stepping on the Black Box: Kinesthetic Experience and the Transformation of Body Size --"Would You Do It?": Doing the Scholarly Striptease for Academic Gain --Reading the Body: Consuming the Feminist Scholar --Reading Pink: The Beauty Persuasion --Thinking and Rethinking Tails, Tales, and Tellings.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Prologue -- Contributors' Biographies -- Introducing Gender, Identity and Reproduction -- Section I Representing Reproduction -- Introduction -- 1 Representations of Motherhood -- 2 Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads: The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture -- 3 Battle of the Gametes: Cultural Representations of 'Medically' Assisted Conception -- Summary -- Section II Reproductive Encounters: Cooperation and Negotiation -- Introduction -- 4 Birth Matters: Learning from My Past - A Midwifery for the Future -- 5 Your Dignity is Hung Up at the Door: Pakistani and White Women's Experiences of Childbirth -- 6 The Quintessential Female Act? Learning about Birth -- 7 Dutch Midwives: The Difference between Image and Reality -- 8 Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Identity -- Summary -- Section III Reproductive Identities: Exclusion and Resistance -- Introduction -- 9 Woe the Women: DES, Mothers and Daughters -- 10 I didn't Think Much of his Bedside Manner but he was very Skilled at his Job: Medical Encounters in Relation to 'Infertility' -- 11 Cutting Out Motherhood: Childfree Sterilized Women -- 12 Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women's Accounts of their Experiences of Menopause -- Summary -- 13 Reflecting on Reproduction -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Amelia M. Trevelyan and Lowell S. Gustafson -- One: Multiplicity and Discourse in Maya Gender Relations 11 -- Marvin Cohodas -- Two: Shared Gender Relations: Early Mesoamerica and the Maya 55 -- Lowell S. Gustafson -- Three: Household and State in Pre-Hispanic Maya Society: Gender, Identity, and Practice 75 -- Julia A. Hendon -- Four: The Gendered Architecture of Uxmal 93 -- Amelia M. Trevelyan and Heather W. Forbes -- Five: Mother/Father Kings 141 -- Lowell S. Gustafson -- Six: Corn Deities and the Male/Female Principle 169 -- Karen Bassie-Sweet -- Seven: The Popol Vuh and the Decline of Maya Women's Status 191 -- Beatriz Barba de Pina Chan -- Eight: A Divine Couple's Gender Roles in the Setting of the Earth at Palenque 227 -- Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia -- Nine: Holy Mother Earth and Her Flowery Skirt: The Role of the Female Earth Surface in Maya Political and Ritual Performance 281 -- Carolyn E. Tate -- Ten: Female and Male: The Ideology of Balance and Renewal in Elite Costuming among the Classic Period Maya 319 -- F. Kent Reilly -- Eleven: Desiring Women: Classic Maya Sexualities 329 -- Rosemary A. Joyce

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