Body Battlegrounds : Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations.

Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Going "Natural" -- 1. Body Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair -- 2. Radical Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment -- 3. Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy -- Living Resistance | Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging Medical Advice Following Mastectomy -- Living Resistance | My Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the "Kink" in My Hair…Today -- Living Resistance | Living My Full Life: Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder -- Living Resistance | Pretty Brown: Encounters with My Skin Color -- Part II: Representing Resistance -- 4. Blood as Resistance: Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism -- 5. Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet? Resistance through Parody in the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend -- 6. The Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women's Oppositional Embodiment -- Living Resistance | A Cystor's Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative Femininity -- Living Resistance | Old Bags Take a Stand: A Face Off with Ageism in America -- Living Resistance | Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist Disembodiment -- Living Resistance | I Am a Person Now: Autism, Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome -- Part III: Creating Community, Disrupting Assumptions -- 7. Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The Complexity of Black Girls' Resistance -- 8. Big Gay Men's Performative Protest against Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth -- 9. "What's Love Got to Do with It?" The Embodied Activism of Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare.

Living Resistance | "Your Signing Is So Beautiful!" The Radical Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public -- Living Resistance | Two Shakes -- Living Resistance | "Showing Our Muslim": Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox -- Living Resistance | "Doing Out": A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the Bronx -- Living Resistance | Everybody: Making Fat Radio for All of Us -- Part IV: Transforming Institutions and Ideologies -- 10. Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life -- 11. Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into Law -- 12. Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton Twirlers' Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain -- 13. "That Gentle Somebody": Rethinking Black Female Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South Africa -- Living Resistance | Showing Up as Myself: Embodiment and Authenticity in the Classroom -- Living Resistance | Sitting and Resisting: How Using a Wheelchair Confronts Ideas of Normal -- Living Resistance | Against Diabetic Numerology in a Black Body, or, Why I Cannot Live by the Numbers -- Living Resistance | My Women's Studies Professor Uses Botox? -- Afterword: Bodies of Resistance -- Contributors -- Index.

The complex lives of society's body outlaws and their acts of resistance.

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