The American Body in Context - An Anthology

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 I. Minds and Bodies
Chapter 3 Descartes Goes to Hollywood: Mind, Body and Gender in Contemporary Cyborg Cinema
Chapter 4 The Lived Experience of Disability
Chapter 5 Souls of Silicon
Part 6 II. Social Bodies
Chapter 7 The Body in Consumer Culture
Chapter 8 The Embodiment of Masculinity: Cultural, Psychological and Behavioral Dimensions
Chapter 9 'Material Girl': The Effacements of Postmodern Culture
Chapter 10 Michael Jordan's Family Values: Marketing, Meaning, and Post-Reagan America
Chapter 11 Concord Watch Advertisement
Part 12 III. Disciplined Bodies
Chapter 13 On Blowing One's Nose
Chapter 14 Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
Chapter 15 Put Your Hands in Your Own Laps: Disciplining the Student Body
Chapter 16 . The Visible Man: The Execution and Electronic Afterlife of Joseph Paul Jernigan
Part 17 IV. Resisting Bodies
Chapter 18 Body Narratives, Body Boundaries
Chapter 19 Firm But Shapely, Fit But Sexy, Strong But Thin: The Postmodern Aerobicizing Female Bodies
Chapter 20 Heavy Judgment: A Sister Talks About the Pain of 'Living Large'

About the author

Jessica Johnston is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where she teaches courses on contemporary American culture, deviance in America, power and knowledge in corporate America, and issues of identity and qualitative methodologies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jessica R. Johnston (Editor), Johnston Jessica R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9780842028592
• ISBN: 978-0-8420-2859-2
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 227 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: American Visions: Readings in American Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls