Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Race, Gender, and Science)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253209757 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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JACQUELINE URLA is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is at work on a book entitled Siting Homosexuality: A History of Surveillance and the Scientific Production of Deviant Bodies. She is working on a collaborative research project exploring the representation of whiteness in native peoples’ art, material culture, and visual media.. JENNIFER TERRY, assistant Professor of Values in Science and Techno
good study in power-knowledge I read this book several years ago as a grad student and now regularly recommend it to my doc students. The articles offer eye-opening studies on how bodies were and are read as sites of deviancy and used as the objects and justification for intervention through both acts against individuals and local and global politics. It offers really practical studies in how can power-knowledge function in "scientific" studies, particularl. Nothing special I'm usually not a big fan of postmodern scholarship, and this book is no exception. It was a decent book for my class, in that it introduced students to the implications of various kinds of bodily deviance (deafness, race, sex, body type, etc.) as well as various (arguably) non-anatomical categories that were reified as anatomical difference (Jewishness, various mental illnesses, etc.). Most of the articles are not all that gre
the many excellent selections will make for compelling reading for students of medical anthropology and the history of science." American AnthropologistDeviant Bodies reveals that the "normal," "healthy" body is a fiction of science. " the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character." Times Literary Supplement"Highly recommended for cultural studies " The Reader’s Review"It would be useful for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of the body, the history and sociology of science and medicine, and women’s studies courses, particularly those exploring the feminist critiques of science and medicine." Contemporary Sociology" a powerful deconstruction of the scientific gaze in configuring bodily deviance as a means of legitimating the social order within multiple historical and social contexts. Modern life sciences, medicine, and the popular perceptions they create have not merely observed and reported, they have constructed bodies: the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body.
" the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character. Times Literary Supplement "Highly recommended for cultural studies "The Reader's Review "It would be useful for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of the body, the history and sociology of science and medicine, and women's studies courses, particularly those exploring the feminist critiques of science and medicine." Contemporary Sociology " a powerful deconstruction of the scientific gaze in configuring bodily deviance as a means of legitimating the social order within multiple historical and social contexts the ma