Body Studies in Canada

Critical Approaches to Embodied Experiences
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77338-258-6
Verlag: Canadian Scholars

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Paperback

How do we perceive ourselves and our bodies in relation to our physical, geographical, social, cultural, political, psychological, and spiritual environments? Body Studies in Canada uses intersectional methodological and theoretical frameworks to discuss the political and socio-historical discourses that shape body studies in Canadian society.This edited volume delves into a variety of timely topics including postcolonial "othering" of the body; social discourses around healthy and un-healthy bodies; intersections of aging, gender, race, class, and size; the fitness industries' promotion of the "ideal" body; the gendering of bodywork symbols and expressions in carceral environments; and self-awareness of "the body" in social and digital media.In thirteen chapters, editor Valerie Zawilski brings together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines and expertise to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how the body interacts reflexively with society. This collection is a foundational text for sociology of the body and body studies courses, as well as gender studies, political science, and health studies.FEATURES: - Provides a uniquely Canadian perspective on body studies and the surrounding historical and political issues, with a focus on decolonization, racialization, masculinities, engagement with critical weight scholarship, and immigration
- Pedagogical features include section introductions, boxed inserts highlighting key concepts, learning objectives, questions for critical thinking, and a glossary

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction Part I: Bodywork Narratives
- Chapter 1: The Hidden Embodied Stories behind Diabetes as Racialized Health Disparities - Leslie Dawson
- Chapter 2: (Re)Storying Indigenous Womanhood: Reclaiming Selfhood and Resisting Colonial Dismemberment - Tamara Bernard
- Chapter 3: Gendered Status Hierarchies among US and Canadian Youth: Athletic Ability and Physical Attractiveness - Joseph H. Michalski
- Chapter 4: Fat Reclamation and Identity Management in the Canadian Context - Heather Plyley and Annette Burfoot
- Chapter 5: Women Moving into Later Life: Aging Bodies, Changing Identities - Nancy Mandell and Lois Kamenitz
- Part II: Healthy Bodywork
- Chapter 6: Bartering with Fate: Imagination, Health, and the Body - Margaret MacNeill and Debra Kriger
- Chapter 7: "It Was Such Good Medicine for Me": Contesting the Body Project of Yoga, Health, and Ideal Femininity - Judith Mintz
- Chapter 8: Conceptualizing the Aging Body in Fitness Instructor Training Curricula - Kelsey Harvey and Meridith Griffin
- Chapter 9: The Myth of Healthiness: Rethinking the Boundaries between Healthy Selves and Unhealthy Others in Drug Addiction Treatment - Ana M. Ning
- Part III: Political Bodywork
- Chapter 10: Power and the Body: Iranian Female Immigrants' Perceptions and Experiences of Bodily Freedoms in Iran and Canada - Bahar Tajrobehkar
- Chapter 11: Physical Activity, Bodywork, and the Construction of Masculinities in Canadian Men's Federal Prisons - Mark Norman, Rosemary Ricciardelli, and James Gillett
- Chapter 12: Caged Bodies: Gendered Responses to the Carceral Challenges of Detention during the G20 Summit in Toronto, June 26–28, 2010 - Valerie Zawilski
- Chapter 13: The Undignified Body: Excremental Assault in Canadian Nursing Homes - Donna Lynn Smith, Megan Aiken, Amy Gerlock, and John Church Glossary
- Index