Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Terry, Jennifer, 1958-
• Urla, Jacqueline.

Description

vi, 416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Race, gender, and science

Subject

• Human body > Social aspects
• Human body > Public opinion
• Deviant behavior
• Social norms
• Social values

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 96-2324

ISBN

• 0253328985 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0253209757 (pa : alk. paper)

LCCN

95003260

OCLC

31970861

Title

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

Imprint

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995.

Series

Race, gender, and science

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Terry, Jennifer, 1958-

Urla, Jacqueline.

Research Call Number

JFE 96-2324