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The past decades have witnessed a surge of sociological interest in the body. From the focal point of aesthetic investment, political regulation and moral anxiety, to a means of redefining traditional conceptions of agency and identity, the body has been cast in a wide variety of sociological roles. However, there is one topic that proves conspicuously absent from this burgeoning literature on the body, namely its role in the everyday (re)production of class-boundaries. Distinctions in the Flesh aims to fill that void by showing that the way individuals perceive, use and manage their bodies is fundamentally intertwined with their social position and trajectory. Drawing on a wide array of survey-data - from food-preferences to sporting-practices and from weight-concern to tastes in clothing - this book shows how bodies not only function as key markers of class-differences, but also help to naturalize and legitimize such differences. Along the way, it scrutinizes popular notions like the obesity epidemic', questions the role of the media' in shaping the way people judge their bodies and sheds doubt on sociological narratives that cast the body as a malleable object that is increasingly open to individual control and reflexive management. This book will be of interest to scholars of class, lifestyle and identity, but also to social epidemiologists, health professionals and anyone interested in the way that social inequalities become, quite literally, inscribed in the body.

Racism, collective violence, sickness, environmental catastrophe, body obsession, greed, and accelerated life concern everyone. They are also the subject matter of this book. Here, however, they are not viewed as social problems to be solved by technical experts. Instead, they are viewed as products of the joint transference of aspects of ourselves onto objects independent of ourselves

This book focuses on the hyper-scripturalization (or the persistent degradation) of Black flesh, with the phenomenon of masquerade conceptualized as analytical wedge that makes a compelling case for seeing how our ongoing modern realities, with mixed and too often devastating consequences, are constructed.

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Introduction: Flash Data: Semiotics, Information, and the Body / Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle ; 1. LSDNA: Consciousness Expansion and the Emergence of Biotechnology / Richard Doyle ; Response / Steven Shaviro ; 2. The Virtual Surgeon: Operating on the Data in an Age of Medialization /Timothy Lenoir ; Response / Peter Oppenheimer ; 3. Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments / N. Katharine Hayles ; Response / Kathleen Woodward.

Intro -- SHORT CONTENTS -- LONG CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1: Social Movements: Concepts and Debates -- Social movements: Definitions and conceptual distinctions -- Definitions -- Some conceptual distinctions -- Visible versus latent social movement activity -- Prefigurative politics -- Social movements versus social movement organizations -- Progressive, regressive and counter movements -- Some key approaches to the study of social movements -- Collective behaviour theories: Early explanations of why and how protests and social movements emerge -- Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT): From individuals to organizations -- Political Process Theory (PPT): The importance of political context -- Action Repertoires: What movements do when they mobilize -- Why do people join movements? -- The importance of networks -- Meanwhile in Europe: Marxist frameworks and New Social Movement Theory -- New Social Movements (NSMs) -- Key components of New Social Movement theory -- Collective Identity -- Outcomes, success and failure: How and why do social movements matter? -- Conclusion -- 2: Globalization and Social Movements -- Inter-relationships between globalization processes and social movements -- Economic neoliberal globalization -- Contesting neoliberal capitalist globalization -- Institutional globalization -- Geopolitical militarized globalization -- Environmental globalization -- Cultural/ideological globalization -- Technological globalization -- Transnational social movement networks and global social movements -- Geopolitical and national political agendas and transnational-national-local linkages between social movements -- Social movement diffusion processes -- Types of diffusion -- Organizational forms and practices -- Narratives, frames and slogans -- Strategies.

In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Focusing on the trauma caused by interactions with gynecologists, Falu draws on in-depth ethnographic work among the Black lesbian community to reveal their profoundly negative affective experiences within Brazil's deeply biased medical system. In the face of such entrenched, intersectional intimate violence, Falu's informants actively pursue well-being in ways that channel their struggle for self-worth toward broader goals of social change, self care, and communal action. Demonstrating how the racist and heteronormative underpinnings of gynecology erase Black lesbian subjecthood through mental, emotional, and physical traumas, Falu explores the daily resistance and abolitionist practices of worth-making that claim and sustain Black queer identity and living. Falu rethinks the medicalization of race, sex, and gender in Brazil and elsewhere while offering a new perspective on Black queer life through well-being grounded in relationships, socioeconomic struggles, the erotic, and freedom strivings

Publisher description: In Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists provocative theorist Anne Norton presents an alternative narrative of the history of the world She starts by reminding us of the real interplay between words (laws, scriptures, myths, and history) and the world of flesh (of bloodties and bloodshed, skin color and sexuality). The seemingly precious and all too literary constructs of the poststructuralists really do act on the body politic. The book is written on three historical sites: the revolutions in England and France, the struggle against colonialism, and the modern liberal order. In this telling, we see liberal constitutions born in Terror and regicide, we see a word, a text, a document, write "slave" on the darkness of the body, we see the guillotine release the power in the blood, and we hear the words that declare a people free. Norton re-reads and re-writes foundational myths from Abraham and Isaac on the mountain top in the Bible to legends of the American Revolution. This lyrical and mesmerizingbook serves, in its way, as a catalog of oppressions, and a history of the justifications oppressors have made for injustices. It also makes clear that that these oppressions and justifications continue on today, as certainly as they did in any point in history. Defying easy categorization, Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists is the ultimate challenges to all those who claim that history has come to end, or that life is classifiable or uncomplex, or that we understand all we need to understand about the story of Western History

"Flesh wounds? is a book of research-based stories about self-injury (sometimes called self-harm). It explores the meaning and purpose of self-injury in an individual's life, the experiences that might lead to self-injury, and which approaches and responses by health and social services are helpful and which are not. It is intended to be a resource for people who hurt themselves and for those who live and work with them. [Fictionalised but drawn from real life] these stories challenge the stigmatising view of self-injury as something 'mad' or 'bad', to be prevented at all costs. They also highlight the importance of understanding the complexity of each individual and their relationship with self-injury, alongside practices which offer acceptance and support across the breadth and depth of someone's needs." -- Back cover

"Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson's ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson's idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique perspective on one of American history's most studied figures."--Dust jacket