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Description

Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Approaching the Body Through Public-facing Scholarship in Philadelphia

How To Use This Book

Unit One: The Rational Mind vs. The Criminal Body

Preface to Unit One

Chapter 1 - Our Own Flesh and Blood: Putting the Body at the Center of Violence and Dehumanization - Krista K. Thomason

Chapter 2 - Are We Our Brains? How Early Christianity Shaped Western Ideas About Power, Morality, and Personhood - Jessica Wright

Chapter 3 - Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis - Ute Bettray

Unit Two: The Deviant and Undesirable Body

Preface to Unit Two

Chapter 4 - Bias, Brains, and Skulls: Tracing the Legacy of Scientific Racism in the 19th Century Works of Samuel George Morton and Friedrich Tiedemann - Paul Wolff Mitchell and John S. Michael

Chapter 5 - Female Vampires as Embodied Critiques of Heteronormativity, Blood-Mixing, and Patriarchy: From Carmilla to Fledgling - Dorisa Costello

Chapter 6 - Protest Bodies: The Right to Protect Your Own in Environmental Justice and Redevelopment Battles - Christina Jackson

Chapter 7 - Death and the Power of the Young Female Body: Iconic Legal Cases - Barry Furrow

Unit Three: The Beautiful Body and Its Parts

Preface to Unit Three

Chapter 8 - Gray Matters: Social Violence and the Victorian Surgical Textbook - Emily August

Chapter 9 - ‘Tuck in Your Derrière’: Butts and Bodies in Ballet and Tap - Kat Richter

Chapter 10 - The Year is 2093: Reanimation from Frankenstein to Prometheus as Sci-fi Metaphor for (Dis)Embodied Female Futures and Colonization of Space - Jamie A. Thomas

Product details

Published Mar 08 2021
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 268
ISBN 9781498563888
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 11 b/w illustrations
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Jamie A. Thomas

Anthology Editor

Christina Jackson

Contributor

Jamie A. Thomas

Contributor

Emily August

Contributor

Barry R. Furrow

Contributor

Katrina Richter

Contributor

Dorisa Costello

Contributor

John S. Michael

Contributor

Ute Bettray

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