Anne Marie Champagne is a PhD candidate in sociology and Center for Cultural Sociology junior fellow at Yale University.Asia Friedman is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Delaware.

“This book will leave you with a new approach to the mind/body divide. With a meaningful set of contributions from a wide range of leading scholars, it fills an important gap in how we understand body and embodiment. A much-needed and impressive accomplishment.” Georgiann Davis, University of New Mexico

• Introduction: Between Meaning and Matter - Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman1. Toward a Strong Cultural Sociology of the Body and Embodiment - Anne Marie Champagne2. Thinking the Molecular - Ben Spatz3. Interpreting Africa’s Seselelãme: Bodily Ways of Knowing in a Globalized World - Kathryn Linn Geurts and Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie4. Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in Nervous Conditions - Sweta Rajan-Rankin and Mrinalini Greedharry5. Reinterpreting Male Bodies and Health in Crisis Times: From “Obesity” to Bigger Matters - Lee F. Monaghan6. Beauty, Breasts, and Meaning after Mastectomy - Piper Sledge7. “You Are Not the Body”: (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga - Erin F. Johnston8. Black Girls’ Bodies and Belonging in the Classroom - Brittney Miles9. Embodied Vulnerability and Sensemaking with Solidarity Activists - Chandra Russo10. Our Bodies, Our Disciplines, Our Selves - Annemarie Jutel