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List of contents
ContributorsPart I Introduction 1. Introduction: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies
Sarah Whetstone and Jackie Hogan2. Thinking Bodies: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Bodies and Embodiment
Jackie HoganPart II Bodies and the Commodification of Sex, Love, and Desire3. Consuming Racialized Labor: Sex Tourists, Romance Tourists, and Retirement Migrants in the Philippines
Julia Meszaros and Maria Cecilia Hwang4. "Blackfishing": Hypersexualization, Racial Parody, and the Fetishization of the Black Femme Body
Maxine K. Wright5. "Love Addiction" and the Paradox of "Healthy" Love
Tayler Nelson6. Craving Bigger Bodies: Size, Sexuality, and Becoming Larger
Tony E. AdamsPart III Pleasure, Play, and Authenticity in Bodily Expressions7. Sensory Authenticity: Embodying and Commodifying "the Other"
Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley8. Pretty, Powerful, and Playful: Self-commodification and "Postfeminist Sensibility" among Women Action Sports Athletes
Charli Kerns9. Paying to Perform: Self-commodification and Stigma Management Strategies in Contemporary Burlesque
Nicole B. Oehmen and Kathryn Rittenhour10. Dancing for Ourselves: Autonomy, Community, and Embodied Resistance in Recreational Pole Dancing
Sarah WhetstonePart IV Disciplining Bodies: Commodification and Social Control11. Economies of Violence: Pay-to-Stay and the Value of Incarcerated Bodies
Brittany Friedman, April D. Fernandes and Gabriela M. Kirk-Werner12. The Urbanormative Discipline of Rural Bodies and the Construction of Rural Delinquency
Jimmy Robinson and Margaux Crider Robinson13. From "Adopt a Clitoris" to "Designer Vaginas:" Critical Reflections on Genital Surgeries and the Commodification of Female Genitalia
Fae ChubinPart V Bio-commodification, Bio-ethics, and Biomedical Marketplaces14. Risky Bodies: BRCA Testing, Previvors, and the Reification of Risk
Jackie Hogan15. Neoliberal Eugenics in the Egg and Sperm Donation Marketplace
Mia Rosario Milne16. Organ Transplantation, Surrogacy, and the "Gift" Masquerade
Sanchita Sarkar17. Corpses, Clients, and Commodification in the Natural Burial Marketplace
Doug ValentineIndex
About the author
Jackie Hogan is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (USA). She has authored three books, including
Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood;
Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America; and
Roots Quest: Inside America's Genealogy Boom.
Sarah Whetstone is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (USA). Her past research focused on social inequalities in American addiction treatment, punishment, stigma, and suffering in the carceral state. Her new projects explore gender, sport, creative resistance, and embodiment.
Summary
Consuming Bodies takes a critical perspective on body commodification both in the US and across the globe, addressing newly emerging practices and making an important contribution to social scientific understandings of the body that goes beyond the Eurocentrism of the extant scholarly literature.
