Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mapping embodied deviance / Jacqueline Urla and Jennifer Terry
  • Gender, race, and nation: the comparative anatomy of "Hottentot" women in Europe, 1815-1817 / Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Framed: the deaf in the Harem / Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • Colonizing and transforming the criminal tribesman: the Salvation Army in British India / Rachel J. Tolen
  • This norm which is not one: reading the female body in Lombroso's anthropology / David G. Horn
  • Anxious slippages between "us" and "them": a brief history of the scientific search for homosexual bodies / Jennifer Terry
  • The Destruction of "Lives not worth living" / Robert N. Proctor
  • Domesticity in the Federal Indian schools: the power of authority over mind and body / K. Tsianina Lomawaima
  • Nymphomania: the historical construction of female sexuality / Carol Groneman
  • Theatres of madness / Susan Jahoda
  • The Anthropometry of Barbie: unsettling ideals of the feminine body in popular culture / Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund
  • Regulated passions: the invention of inhibited sexual desire and sexual addiction / Janice M. Irvine
  • Between innocence and safety: epidemiologic and popular constructions of young people's need for safe sex / Cindy Patton
  • The Hen that can't lay an egg (Bu xia dan de mu ji): conceptions of female infertility in modern China / Lisa Handwerker
  • The Media-ted gene: sotries of gender and race / Dorothy Nelking and M. Susan Lindee.