This edited collection provides sociological and cultural research that expands our understanding of the alternative, liminal or transgressive;theorizing the status of the alternative in contemporary culture and society.
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This edited collection provides sociological and cultural research that expands our understanding of the alternative, liminal or transgressive; theorizing the status of the alternative in contemporary culture and society.
"Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with a brand new conclusion, featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up to date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates arou…
"Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with a brand new conclusion, featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up to date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates arou…
"Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with a brand new conclusion, featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up to date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates arou…
Reading Black and Latina Embodiment in Miami -- Sexual-Aesthetic Excess: Or, How Chonga Girls Make Class Burn -- "Fine as Hell": The Aesthetic Erotics of Masculinity -- Interlude -- Rococo Pink: The Power of Nicki Minaj's Aesthetics of Fakery -- Interlude -- Encounters with Exce…
Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls and women are often framed as embodying "excessive" styles that are presumed to indicate sexual deviance. I…
"Aesthetics of Excess examines how the bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses of aesthetic value that mark them as sexual "others," and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Hernandez employs pa…
"Aesthetics of Excess examines how the bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses of aesthetic value that mark them as sexual "others," and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Hernandez employs pa…
Despite ongoing criticism of strict beauty ideals, cosmetic surgeons and diet pill manufacturers continue to thrive and tolerance for body flaws seems to lessen every day. More and more people have begun to internalize a need for physical perfection. And the psychological distre…
Despite ongoing criticism of strict beauty ideals, cosmetic surgeons and diet pill manufacturers continue to thrive and tolerance for body flaws seems to lessen every day. More and more people have begun to internalize a need for physical perfection. And the psychological distre…
Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied experiences of fat oppression and fat activisms. Moving beyond an analysis of fat oppression as singular, this book will aim to unpack the volatility of fat--t…
This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the ecological body. Designed…
Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls
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Sexualisation of girls in media, popular culture and society is discussed and condemned. Attention is paid on its psychological effects and the phenomena is seen as a part of a general backlash against feminism and women. Topics include pornography, violence, public space, medic…
Getting real: challenging the sexualisation of girls
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Type: Book