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Body Battlegrounds
Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of
society's body outlaws-individuals from myriad social locations who
oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body.
Original research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative
interviews, and participant observation) along with personal
narratives provide a window into the everyday lives of people
rewriting the norms of embodiment in sites like schools, sporting
events, and doctors' offices. Table of Contents
Introduction | Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan Part I:
Going \"Natural\" • Body Hair Battlegrounds: The
Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their
Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair | Breanne Fahs • Radical
Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment |
Monica Basile • Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression
and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy | Anne Esacove
Living Resistance: • Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging
Medical Advice Following Mastectomy | Joanna Rankin • My
Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the \"Kink\" in My Hair . . .
Today | Cheryl Thompson • Living My Full Life: My
Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge
Eating Disorder | Christina Fisanick • Pretty Brown:
Encounters with My Skin Color | Praveena Lakshmanan Part II:
Representing Resistance • Blood as Resistance:
Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism | Shayda Kafai
• Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet?: Resistance through Parody in
the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend | Katherine Phelps • The
Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women's Oppositional Embodiment
| Kelly Grove and Doug Schrock Living Resistance: • A Cystor's
Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative
Femininity | Ledah McKellar • Old Bags Take a Stand: A
Face Off with Ageism in America | Faith Baum and Lori Petchers
• Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist
Disembodiment | Haley Gentile • I Am a Person Now: Autism,
Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome | Alyssa
Hillary Part III: Creating Community, Disrupting
Assumptions • Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The
Complexity of Black Girls' Resistance | Stephanie D. Sears and
Maxine Leeds Craig • Big Gay Men's Performative Protest Against
Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth | Jason Whitesel
• \"What's Love Got to Do with It?\": The Embodied Activism of
Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare | Sheila M. Katz Living
Resistance: • \"Your Signing Is So Beautiful!\": The Radical
Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public | Rachel Kolb •
Two Shakes | Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer • \"Showing Our
Muslim\": Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox | Sara
Rehman • \"Doing Out\": A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the
Bronx | Mark Broomfield • Everybody: Making Fat Radio for
All of Us | Cat Pausé Part IV: Transforming Institutions
and Ideologies • Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering
Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life | J. E. Sumerau
• Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into
Law | J. Shoshanna Ehrlich • Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton
Twirlers' Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain | Trenton
M. Haltom • \"That Gentle Somebody\": Rethinking Black Female
Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South
Africa | Taylor Riley Living Resistance:
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Applied theatre : creative ageing
Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs. For the first time, this publication allows an examination of innovative national and international practice in applied theatre that responds to the needs of older adults to encourage outcomes such as wellbeing and social inclusion. The volume does so while also questioning how we, as a society, wish to respond to the complex needs of older adults and the process of ageing and how applied theatre practices can help us do so in a way that is both positive and inclusive. In Part One Sheila McCormick reviews and historicises the practice of applied theatre with, for and by the elderly. It argues that pioneering applied theatre strategies are vital if the creative practice is to respond to the growing needs of older members of society, and reflects on particular cultural responses to ageing and the elderly.0The second part of the book is made up of essays and case studies from leading experts and practitioners from Britain, America and Australia, including consideration of applied theatre approaches to dementia, health, wellbeing, social inclusion and Alzheimer's disease.
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Queer Attachments
Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture? What is its role in stigmatizing subcultures such as the Irish, the queer or the underclass? Can shame be understood as a productive force? In this lucid and passionately argued book, Sally R. Munt explores the vicissitudes of shame across a range of texts, cultural milieux, historical locations and geographical spaces - from eighteenth-century Irish politics to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, from contemporary US academia to the aesthetics of Tracey Emin. She finds that the dynamics of shame are consistent across cultures and historical periods, and that patterns of shame are disturbingly long-lived. But she also reveals shame as an affective emotion, engendering attachments between bodies and between subjects - queer attachments. Above all, she celebrates the extraordinary human ability to turn shame into joy: the party after the fall. Queer Attachments is an interdisciplinary synthesis of cultural politics, emotions theory and narrative that challenges us to think about the queerly creative proclivities of shame.
Contents: Series editors' preface: After shame; Foreword, Donald L. Nathanson; The cultural politics of shame: an introduction; Queer Irish sodomites: the shameful histories of Edmund Burke, William Smith, Theodosius Reed, the Earl of Castlehaven and diverse servants - among others; Shove the queer: Irish/American shame in New York's annual St Patrick's Day parades; Expulsion: the queer turn of shame; Queering the pitch: contagious acts of shame in organisations; Shameless in Queer Street; A queer undertaking: uncanny attachments in the HBO television drama series Six Feet Under; After the fall: queer heterotopias in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy; A queer feeling when I look at you: Tracey Emin's aesthetics of the self; Bibliography; Index.
Sally R. Munt is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex , UK. She has published extensively in cultural studies and is the author or editor of seven previous books including Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space (1998) and (as editor) Cultural Studies and the Working Class: Subject to Change (2000). She has given numerous keynote speeches and invited lectures in Europe and the US.
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Linguistic Organisation and Native Title
Classical Aboriginal societies in Australia have commonly been described in terms of social organisation and local organisation. This book presents rich detail on a third and related domain that has not been given the same kind of attention: linguistic organisation. Basing their analyses on fieldwork among the Wik peoples of Cape York Peninsula, north Australia, Peter Sutton and Ken Hale show how cosmology, linguistic variation, language prehistory, clan totemic identities, geopolitics, land use and land ownership created a vibrant linguistic organisation in a classical Aboriginal society. This has been a society long in love with language and languages. Its people have richly imbued the domain of rights and interests in country—the foundations of their native title as recognised in Australian law—with rights and interests in the abundance of languages and dialects given to them at the start of the world.
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The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People
At a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals-often referred to under the umbrella acronym LGBT-are becoming more visible in society and more socially acknowledged, clinicians and researchers are faced with incomplete information about their health status. While LGBT populations often are combined as a single entity for research and advocacy purposes, each is a distinct population group with its own specific health needs. Furthermore, the experiences of LGBT individuals are not uniform and are shaped by factors of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographical location, and age, any of which can have an effect on health-related concerns and needs.
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People assesses the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations, identifies research gaps and opportunities, and outlines a research agenda for the National Institute of Health. The report examines the health status of these populations in three life stages: childhood and adolescence, early/middle adulthood, and later adulthood. At each life stage, the committee studied mental health, physical health, risks and protective factors, health services, and contextual influences. To advance understanding of the health needs of all LGBT individuals, the report finds that researchers need more data about the demographics of these populations, improved methods for collecting and analyzing data, and an increased participation of sexual and gender minorities in research.
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People is a valuable resource for policymakers, federal agencies including the National Institute of Health (NIH), LGBT advocacy groups, clinicians, and service providers.
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Seeking Sanctuary
Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories
from fourteen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg. The
stories, diverse in scope, chronicle each narrator's arduous
journey to South Africa, and their corresponding movement towards
self-love and self-acceptance. The narrators reveal their personal
battles to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and gender
identity, often in the face of violent persecution, and how they
have carved out spaces of hope and belonging in their new home
country. In these intimate testimonies, the narrators' resilience
in the midst of uncertain futures reveal the myriad ways in which
LGBT Africans push back against unjust and unequal systems.
Seeking Sanctuary makes a critical intervention by showing
the complex interplay between homophobia and xenophobia in South
Africa, and of the state of sexual orientation and gender identity
(SOGI) rights in Africa. By shedding light on the fraught
connections between sexuality, faith and migration, this
ground-breaking project also provides a model for religious
communities who are working towards justice, diversity and
inclusion.
Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories
from fourteen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg. The
stories, diverse in scope, chronicle each narrator's arduous
journey to South Africa, and their corresponding movement towards
self-love and self-acceptance. The narrators reveal their personal
battles to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and gender
identity, often in the face of violent persecution, and how they
have carved out spaces of hope and belonging in their new home
country. In these intimate testimonies, the narrators' resilience
in the midst of uncertain futures reveal the myriad ways in which
LGBT Africans push back against unjust and unequal systems.
Seeking Sanctuary makes a critical intervention by showing
the complex interplay between homophobia and xenophobia in South
Africa, and of the state of sexual orientation and gender identity
(SOGI) rights in Africa. By shedding light on the fraught
connections between sexuality, faith and migration, this
ground-breaking project also provides a model for religious
communities who are working towards justice, diversity and
inclusion.
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