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
Jamie A. Thomas is assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore
College.
Christina Jackson is assistant professor of sociology at Stockton
University.
Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse is a
refreshingly interdisciplinary consideration of embodiment as a
site of agency, oppression, and knowledge production. It is all too
easy, in the face of Western society’s enculturated somatophobia,
to forget that our bodies are a matrix of sense receptors caught in
a web of political constructs; that through the body we both
experience and are experienced by the world. As such, the body is
intrinsic to the formation of self, other, community, and culture.
This text incites a welcome and timely discourse, which honors our
lived experience, by making explicit the connections between our
corporeal flesh and our cultural foundations.
*Catherine Cabeen, Marymount Manhattan College*
While intersectional feminist theory has captured the attention of
numerous scholar/activists throughout the U.S. academy and beyond,
rarely has it been so brilliantly operationalized as is the case in
this cross-disciplinary, co-edited anthology. The broad range of
themes is breathtaking —scientific racism, transfeminism, American
dance, urban development/gentrification, sci-fi films, right-to-die
cases, Gray's Anatomy, the relentlessness of racial inequality.
Professors Jamie A. Thomas and Christina Jackson have assembled a
diverse group of experts whose provocative explorations of the
causes and consequences of social inequality over time make visible
in new ways the challenges and dangers we now face in the aftermath
of a deeply polarizing 2016 Presidential election.
*Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna J. Cooper Professor of Comparative
Women’s Studies at Spelman College and co-author of GENDER TALK:
THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES*
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