Body Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367358136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 204 str.

Nadia E. Brown; Sarah Allen Gershon

Opis

The politics of the body is often highly contested, culturally specific, and controlled, and this book calls our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Spis treści

Introduction: Body politics  1. Transgender politics as body politics: effects of disgust sensitivity and authoritarianism on transgender rights attitudes  2. Naked transgressions: gendered symbolism in Ugandan land protests  3. "Female athlete" politic: Title IX and the naturalization of sex difference in public policy  4. Disability and the meaning of reproductive liberty  5. White attitudes about descriptive representation in the US: the roles of identity, discrimination, and linked fate  6. Targeting young men of color for search and arrest during traffic stops: evidence from North Carolina, 2002–2013  7. Refusing to know a woman’s place: the causes and consequences of rejecting stereotypes of women politicians in the Americas  Dialogue: Studying Body Politics  8. Using experiments to understand public attitudes towards transgender rights  9. Race, gender, and media coverage of Michelle Obama  10. Bodywork in identity: passing as ethnography  11. Queer sensibilities: notes on method  12. Rape, apology, and the business of title IX compliance