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Title Deviant bodies : critical perspectives on difference in science and popular culture / edited by Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 416 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Race, gender, and science
Race, gender, and science.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Mapping embodied deviance / Jacqueline Urla and Jennifer Terry -- Gender, race, and nation: the comparative anatomy of "Hottentot" women in Europe, 1815-1817 / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Framed: the deaf in the Harem / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Colonizing and transforming the criminal tribesman: the Salvation Army in British India / Rachel J. Tolen -- This norm which is not one: reading the female body in Lombroso's anthropology / David G. Horn -- Anxious slippages between "us" and "them": a brief history of the scientific search for homosexual bodies / Jennifer Terry -- The Destruction of "Lives not worth living" / Robert N. Proctor -- Domesticity in the Federal Indian schools: the power of authority over mind and body / K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- Nymphomania: the historical construction of female sexuality / Carol Groneman -- Theatres of madness / Susan Jahoda -- The Anthropometry of Barbie: unsettling ideals of the feminine body in popular culture / Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund -- Regulated passions: the invention of inhibited sexual desire and sexual addiction / Janice M. Irvine -- Between innocence and safety: epidemiologic and popular constructions of young people's need for safe sex / Cindy Patton -- The Hen that can't lay an egg (Bu xia dan de mu ji): conceptions of female infertility in modern China / Lisa Handwerker -- The Media-ted gene: sotries of gender and race / Dorothy Nelking and M. Susan Lindee.
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Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Public opinion.
Human body -- Public opinion.
Human body.
Deviant behavior.
Deviant behavior.
Social norms.
Social norms.
Social values.
Social values.
Human Body.
Social Environment.
Public Opinion.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Social norms.
Added Author Terry, Jennifer, 1958-
Urla, Jacqueline.
Other Form: Print version: Deviant bodies. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995 0253328985 (DLC) 95003260 (OCoLC)31970861
ISBN 0585032505 (electronic book)
9780585032504 (electronic book)
0253328985
0253209757
9780253328984 (cl ; alkaline paper)
9780253209757 (pa ; alkaline paper)