Deviant bodies : critical perspectives on difference in science and popular culture / edited by Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla.
| Other author | Terry, Jennifer, 1958- |
| Other author | Urla, Jacqueline. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995. |
| Description | vi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Race, gender, and science Race, gender, and science. ^A281367 |
| 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: sorties of gender and race / Dorothy Nelking and M. Susan Lindee. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 95003260 |
| ISBN | 0253328985 (cl : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0253209757 (pa : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | GN298 .D49 1995 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |