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Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary "body outlaws"--people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden.  This collection ventures beyond the conventional focus on the "disciplined body" and instead, examines conformity from the perspective of resisters.   By balancing accessibly written original ethnographic research with personal narratives, Embodied Resistance provides a window into the everyday lives of those who defy or violate socially constructed body rules and conventions.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. xiii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-10
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  1. I. Rewriting Gender Scripts
  1. 1. The Specter of Excess: Race, Class, and Gender in Women's Body Hair Narratives
  2. pp. 13-25
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  1. 2. "Is That Any Way to Treat a Lady?": The Dominatrix's Dungeon
  2. pp. 26-36
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  1. 3. "Cruising for a Bruisin'": Women's Flat Track Roller Derby
  2. pp. 37-47
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  1. 4. Becoming a Female-to-Male Transgender (FTM) in South Korea
  2. pp. 48-57
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  1. Living Resistance: From Rapunzel to G.I. Jane
  2. pp. 58-60
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  1. Living Resistance: Funnel as Phallus
  2. pp. 61-63
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  1. II. Challenging Marginalization
  1. 5. "Give Me a Boa and Some Bling!": Red Hat Society Members Commanding Visibility in the Public Sphere
  2. pp. 67-77
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  1. 6. Fat. Hairy. Sexy: Contesting Standards of Beauty and Sexuality in the Gay Community
  2. pp. 78-87
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  1. 7. Belly Dancing Mommas: Challenging Cultural Discourses of Maternity
  2. pp. 88-98
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  1. 8. "It's Important to Show Your Colors": Counter-Heteronormativity in a Metropolitan Community Church
  2. pp. 99-110
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  1. Living Resistance: An Accidental Education
  2. pp. 111-113
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  1. Living Resistance: The Pickup
  2. pp. 114-116
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  1. III. Defying Authoritative Knowledges and Conventional Wisdom
  1. 9. Anorexia as a Choice: Constructing a New Community of Health and Beauty through Pro-Ana Websites
  2. pp. 119-129
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  1. 10. Public Mothers and Private Practices: Breastfeeding as Transgression
  2. pp. 130-142
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  1. 11. "It's Hard to Say": Moving Beyond the Mystery of Female Genital Pain
  2. pp. 143-155
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  1. 12. "What I Had to Do to Survive": Self-Injurers' Bodily Emotion Work
  2. pp. 156-166
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  1. Living Resistance: Intersex? Not My Problem
  2. pp. 167-169
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  1. Living Resistance: Doula-Assisted Childbirth: Helping Her Birth Her Way
  2. pp. 170-172
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  1. IV. Negotiating Boundaries and Meanings
  1. 13. The Politics of the Stall: Transgender and Genderqueer Workers Negotiating "the Bathroom Question"
  2. pp. 175-185
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  1. 14. The Everyday Resistance of Vegetarianism
  2. pp. 186-196
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  1. 15. Menopausal and Misbehaving: When Women "Flash" in Front of Others
  2. pp. 197-208
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  1. 16. The Transformation of Bodily Practices among Religious Defectors
  2. pp. 209-219
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  1. Living Resistance: Crossing the Menstrual Line
  2. pp. 220-221
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  1. Living Resistance: Myself, Covered
  2. pp. 222-224
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  1. Afterword
  2. pp. 225-226
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  1. Classroom Resources
  2. pp. 227-249
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 251-256
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 257-268
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