Oppression and the body : roots, resistance, and resolutions /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Caldwell, Christine, 1952- (Editor), Leighton, Lucia Bennett (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2018]
Subjects:	Human body > Social aspects. Human body > Political aspects. Discrimination. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface: Who we are and why we're here
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The oppression of the body in societies
Chapter 1: The Trauma of oppression: A somatic perpective / Lucia Bennett Leighton
Chapter 2: Body identity development: who we are and who we become / Christine Caldwell
Chapter 3: I am a body on the body of the Earth / Jeanine M. Canty
Chapter 4: Fat embodiment: the case for ethical reading / Katie Manthey
Part 2: Marginalized bodies in society
Chapter 5: Stolen bodies, reclaimed bodies: disability and queerness / Eli Clare
Chapter 6: Queering/Querying the body: sensation and curiosity in disrupting body norms / Rae Johnson
Chapter 7: The transcarceral body: beyond the enemy behind me - from incarceration to emancipation / Lalo Piangco Rivera
Chapter 8: The oppression of black bodies: the demand to simulate white bodies and white embodiment / Carla Sherrell
Chapter 9: The violence of medicalization / Beit Gorski
Part 3: Embodied action
Chapter 10: Queer resistance: reclamation and resilience / Jen Labarbera
Chapter 11: Moving between identities: embodied code-switching / Marcia Warren Edelman
Chapter 12: Trauma and the body: somatic practices for everyday resiliency / Lucia Bennett Leighton
Chapter 13: Transforming distress: grieving dysphoric bodies in community / Beit Gorski.