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Title Many mirrors : body image and social relations / edited by Nicole Sault
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description xiv, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Contents How the Body Shapes Parenthood: "Surrogate" Mothers in the United States and Godmothers in Mexico / Nicole Sault -- Conclusion: Ransoming the Body / Nicole Sault
Foreword / Peggy Reeves Sanday -- Introduction: The Human Mirror / Nicole Sault -- Makeup in Everyday Life: An Inquiry into the Practices of Urban American Women of Diverse Backgrounds / Natalie Beausoleil -- The Body Tamed: Tying and Tattooing among the Rashaayda Bedouin / William C. Young -- The Cultural Anatomy of Competitive Women's Bodybuilding / Alan M. Klein -- Fat Talk: Body Image among Adolescent Girls / Mimi Nichter and Nancy Vuckovic -- The Sweetness of Fat: Health, Procreation, and Sociability in Rural Jamaica / Elisa J. Sobo -- Meanings of Aging in a Southern Town / Valerie Fennell -- Food, Sex, and Salvation: The Role of Discourse in a Recovery Program for Eating Disorders / Dixie L. King -- Mind over Body: The Pregnant Professional / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- "Opening" Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women / Eugenia Kaw -- The Context of Meanings behind Rape Trauma / Cathy Winkler, Renata McMullen and Kate Wininger
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Body image -- Cross-cultural studies.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Cross-cultural studies.
Author Sault, Nicole Landry.
LC no. 93037997
ISBN 0813520797 (cloth)
0813520800 (paperback)