| Gendering Bodies Contributor(s): Crawley, Sara L. (Author), Foley, Lara J. (Author), Shehan, Constance L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742559572 ISBN-13: 9780742559578 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $66.33 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: In Gendering Bodies, Crawley, Foley and Shehan demonstrate how gendered messages about bodies and the social world shape our physical bodies and social selves. At work, in sports and during sex, gendered messages constantly organize our common, everyday settings through a feedback loop of confirmations and disruptions in everyday talk and interaction. This book is an accessible, yet comprehensive, theory of a sociology of the gendered body. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 306.701 |
| LCCN: 2007006366 |
| Series: Gender Lens |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.34" W x 8.91" (1.02 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gendering Bodies explains how the social world shapes our physical bodies and how our bodies shape the social world. In this remarkable investigation into contemporary ideas of gender, sociologists Crawley, Foley, and Shehan argue that bodies are constantly being gendered, or encouraged to participate in (heterosexual) gender conformity. This engendering influences nutrition practices, work and employment choices, dieting, working out, cosmetic surgery, sexual practices, and training-or lack thereof-in sports or fitness. This is an accessible, yet comprehensive, sociological inquiry into a theory of the gendered body. |