Deviant Bodies

Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture

By: Jennifer Terry (Editor), Jacqueline Urla (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 January 1995

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". . . the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character." --Times Literary Supplement

"Highly recommended for cultural studies . . . " --The Reader's Review

"It would be useful for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of the body, the history and sociology of science and medicine, and women's studies courses, particularly those exploring the feminist critiques of science and medicine." --Contemporary Sociology

". . . a powerful deconstruction of the scientific gaze in configuring bodily deviance as a means of legitimating the social order within multiple historical and social contexts. . . . the many excellent selections will make for compelling reading for students of medical anthropology and the history of science." American Anthropologist

Deviant Bodies reveals that the "normal," "healthy" body is a fiction of science. Modern life sciences, medicine, and the popular perceptions they create have not merely observed and reported, they have constructed bodies: the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body.

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"... the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character. Times Literary Supplement "Highly recommended for cultural studies ... "The Reader's Review "It would be useful for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of the body, the history and sociology of science and medicine, and women's studies courses, particularly those exploring the feminist critiques of science and medicine." Contemporary Sociology "... a powerful deconstruction of the scientific gaze in configuring bodily deviance as a means of legitimating the social order within multiple historical and social contexts... the many excellent selections will make for compelling reading for students of medical anthropology and the history of science." American Anthropologist

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Science Biology, Life Sciences Human Biology Science in General Philosophy of Science Anthropology Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture

Social Groups Gay & Lesbian Studies Lesbian Studies

Introduction: Mapping Embodied Deviance	p. 1
Gender, Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of "Hottentot" Women in Europe, 1815-1817	p. 19
Framed: The Deaf in the Harem	p. 49
Colonizing and Transforming the Criminal Tribesman: The Salvation Army in British India	p. 78
This Norm Which Is Not One: Reading the Female Body in Lombroso's Anthropology	p. 109
Anxious Slippages between "Us" and "Them": A Brief History of the Scientific Search for Homosexual Bodies	p. 129
The Destruction of "Lives Not Worth Living"	p. 170
Domesticity in the Federal Indian Schools: The Power of Authority over Mind and Body	p. 197
Nymphomania: The Historical Construction of Female Sexuality	p. 219
Theatres of Madness	p. 251
The Anthropometry of Barbie: Unsettling Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture	p. 277
Regulated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction	p. 314
Between Innocence and Safety: Epidemiologic and Popular Constructions of Young People's Need for Safe Sex	p. 338
The Hen That Can't Lay an Egg (Bu Xia Dan de Mu Ji): Conceptions of Female Infertility in Modern China	p. 358
The Media-ted Gene: Stories of Gender and Race	p. 387
Notes on Contributors	p. 403
Name Index	p. 407
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