Embodied Resistance

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