Deviant bodies : critical perspectives on difference in science and popular culture /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1995.
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Series: | Race, gender, and science
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1055 |
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.