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Title Deviant bodies : critical perspectives on difference in science and popular culture / edited by Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 416 pages) : illustrations
Series Race, gender, and science
Race, gender, and science
Contents Introduction: Mapping embodied deviance / Jacqueline Urla and Jennifer Terry -- Gender, race, and nation: the comparative anatomy of "Hottentot" women in Europe, 1815-1817 / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Framed: the deaf in the Harem / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Colonizing and transforming the criminal tribesman: the Salvation Army in British India / Rachel J. Tolen -- This norm which is not one: reading the female body in Lombroso's anthropology / David G. Horn -- Anxious slippages between "us" and "them": a brief history of the scientific search for homosexual bodies / Jennifer Terry -- The Destruction of "Lives not worth living" / Robert N. Proctor -- Domesticity in the Federal Indian schools: the power of authority over mind and body / K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- Nymphomania: the historical construction of female sexuality / Carol Groneman -- Theatres of madness / Susan Jahoda -- The Anthropometry of Barbie: unsettling ideals of the feminine body in popular culture / Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund -- Regulated passions: the invention of inhibited sexual desire and sexual addiction / Janice M. Irvine -- Between innocence and safety: epidemiologic and popular constructions of young people's need for safe sex / Cindy Patton -- The Hen that can't lay an egg (Bu xia dan de mu ji): conceptions of female infertility in modern China / Lisa Handwerker -- The Media-ted gene: sotries of gender and race / Dorothy Nelking and M. Susan Lindee
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Public opinion
Deviant behavior.
Social norms
Social values.
Social ecology.
Human Body
Social Values
Social Environment
Public Opinion
human ecology.
deviant behavior.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Social ecology
Deviant behavior
Human body -- Public opinion
Human body -- Social aspects
Social norms
Social values
Soziale Norm
Abweichung
Körper
Menselijk lichaam.
Afwijkingen.
Sociale normen.
Wetenschap.
Sociologie du corps.
Déviance.
Normes sociales.
Valeurs sociales.
corps humain -- déviance -- norme -- études diverses.
corps humain -- norme sociale -- études diverses.
Form Electronic book
Author Terry, Jennifer, 1958-
Urla, Jacqueline
ISBN 0585032505
9780585032504