Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2019
Published In
Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies In Public Discourse
Abstract
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.
Published By
Lexington Books
Editor(s)
Jamie A. Thomas and C. Jackson
Recommended Citation
Jamie A. Thomas and C. Jackson. (2019). Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies In Public Discourse.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-linguistics/254
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This book was edited and features an introduction by Jamie A. Thomas and C. Jackson.
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