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Gender, Culture, and Physicality
Paradoxes and Taboos
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2009
Summary
Although a plethora of scholarship analyzes gender dynamics, this book seeks to explore the paradoxes and taboos associated with gendered meanings given to human bodies in action, or "physicality." Physicality provides a particularly clear playing space for developing concepts of gender identity, structures, and cultural meanings. When people think about gender differences, they often refer to those associated with physicality, such as giving birth or playing contact sports. Helen M. Sterk and Annelies Knoppers attend to the meanings and values given to human bodies in motion that reflect cultural respect-or disrespect-for what is seen as "womanly" in particular times and places. In doing so, they show how these meanings can reinforce or challenge common ways of doing gender that, at first glance, may not seem to be related to physicality.
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Edition
1/2009
Copyright Year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3406-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3408-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
144
Product Type
Monograph
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CONTENTS No access
PREFACE No access
INTRODUCTION No access Pages 1 - 12
1. BODIES GIVING BIRTH The Gendered Politics of Birthing No access Pages 13 - 30
2. BODIES IN TOUCH Gendered Taboos No access Pages 31 - 50
3. BODIES IN MOTION Paradoxes and Taboos of Men’s Sport No access Pages 51 - 68
4. BODIES IN MOTION Women’s Sport as Undoing Gender? No access Pages 69 - 84
5. BODIES AT WORK Masculinities, Management, and Physicality No access Pages 85 - 106
