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Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.
List of contents
Introduction: Approaching the Body Through Public-facing Scholarship in Philadelphia
How To Use This Book
Unit One: The Rational Mind vs. The Criminal Body
Preface to Unit One
Chapter 1 - Our Own Flesh and Blood: Putting the Body at the Center of Violence and Dehumanization - Krista K. Thomason
Chapter 2 - Are We Our Brains? How Early Christianity Shaped Western Ideas About Power, Morality, and Personhood - Jessica Wright
Chapter 3 - Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis - Ute Bettray
Unit Two: The Deviant and Undesirable Body
Preface to Unit Two
Chapter 4 - Bias, Brains, and Skulls: Tracing the Legacy of Scientific Racism in the 19th Century Works of Samuel George Morton and Friedrich Tiedemann - Paul Wolff Mitchell and John S. Michael
Chapter 5 - Female Vampires as Embodied Critiques of Heteronormativity, Blood-Mixing, and Patriarchy: From Carmilla to Fledgling - Dorisa Costello
Chapter 6 - Protest Bodies: The Right to Protect Your Own in Environmental Justice and Redevelopment Battles - Christina Jackson
Chapter 7 - Death and the Power of the Young Female Body: Iconic Legal Cases - Barry Furrow
Unit Three: The Beautiful Body and Its Parts
Preface to Unit Three
Chapter 8 - Gray Matters: Social Violence and the Victorian Surgical Textbook - Emily August
Chapter 9 - 'Tuck in Your Derrière': Butts and Bodies in Ballet and Tap - Kat Richter
Chapter 10 - The Year is 2093: Reanimation from Frankenstein to Prometheus as Sci-fi Metaphor for (Dis)Embodied Female Futures and Colonization of Space - Jamie A. Thomas
About the author
Jamie A. Thomas is assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.Christina Jackson is assistant professor of sociology at Stockton University.Jamie A. Thomas is assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.Christina Jackson is assistant professor of sociology at Stockton University.
