Chris Bobel, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Samantha Kwan, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston, are co-editors of Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules and Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations, both published by Vanderbilt.

"The book is a good start to a more nuanced understanding of the interconnections between complicity and transgression."--Contemporary Sociology

• Foreword | Rose WeitzIntroduction | Chris Bobel and Samantha KwanPart I: Rewriting Gender ScriptsChapter 1: The Specter of Excess: Race, Class, and Gender in Women’s Body Hair Narratives | Breanne Fahs and Denise A. DelgadoChapter 2: “Is That Any Way to Treat a Lady?”: The Dominatrix’s Dungeon | Danielle J. LindemannChapter 3: “Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’”: Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby | Natalie M. PelusoChapter 4: Becoming a Female-to-Male Transgender (FTM) in South Korea | Tari Youngjung Na and Hae Yeon ChooLiving Resistance:• From Rapunzel to G.I. Jane | Samantha Binford• Funnel as Phallus | Sara L. CrawleyPart II: Challenging MarginalizationChapter 5: “Give Me a Boa and Some Bling!”: Red Hat Society Members Commanding Visibility in the Public Sphere | M. Elise Radina, Lydia K. Manning, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Annette LynchChapter 6: Fat. Hairy. Sexy: Contesting Standards of Beauty and Sexuality in the Gay Community | Nathaniel C. Pyle and Noa Logan KleinChapter 7: Belly Dancing Mommas: Challenging Cultural Discourses of Maternity | Angela M. MoeChapter 8: “It’s Important to Show Your Colors”: Counter-Heteronormativity in a Metropolitan Community Church | J. Edward Sumerau and Douglas P. SchrockLiving Resistance:• An Accidental Education | Hanne Blank• The Pickup | Catherine BergartPart III: Defying Authoritative Knowledges and Conventional WisdomChapter 9: Anorexia as a Choice: Constructing a New Community of Health and Beauty through Pro-Ana Websites | Abigail Richardson and Elizabeth CherryChapter 10: Public Mothers and Private Practices: Breastfeeding as Transgression | Jennifer A. ReichChapter 11: “It’s Hard to Say”: Moving Beyond the Mystery of Female Genital Pain | Christine LabuskiChapter 12: “What I Had to Do to Survive”: Self-Injurers’ Bodily Emotion Work | Margaret Leaf and Douglas P. SchrockLiving Resistance:• Intersex? Not My Problem | Esther Morris Leidolf• Doula-Assisted Childbirth: Helping Her Birth Her Way | Angela HornPart IV: Negotiating Boundaries and MeaningsChapter 13: The Politics of the Stall: Transgender and Genderqueer Workers Negotiating “the Bathroom Question” | Catherine ConnellChapter 14: The Everyday Resistance of Vegetarianism | Samantha Kwan and Louise Marie RothChapter 15: Menopausal and Misbehaving: When Women “Flash” in Front of Others | Heather E. DillawayChapter 16: The Transformation of Bodily Practices among Religious Defectors | Lynn DavidmanLiving Resistance:• Crossing the Menstrual Line | David Linton• Myself, Covered | Beverly Yuen ThompsonAfterword | Barbara Katz RothmanClassroom ResourcesContributorsIndex