By Jennifer Terry, Jacqueline L. Urla
"... the papers in Deviant our bodies show an ongoing Western preoccupation with the assets of id and human character." -- instances Literary Supplement"Highly steered for cultural studies... " -- The Reader's Review"It will be priceless for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes within the sociology of the physique, the background and sociology of technological know-how and medication, and women's reports classes, really these exploring the feminist opinions of technological know-how and medicine." -- modern Sociology"... a strong deconstruction of the medical gaze in configuring physically deviance as a way of legitimating the social order inside of a number of ancient and social contexts.... the numerous very good choices will make for compelling analyzing for college kids of scientific anthropology and the heritage of science." American AnthropologistDeviant our bodies unearths that the "normal," "healthy" physique is a fiction of technology. sleek existence sciences, medication, and the preferred perceptions they carry haven't only saw and suggested, they've got built our bodies: the gay physique, the HIV-infected physique, the infertile physique, the deaf physique, the colonized physique, and the legal physique.
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Likewise, having too many children is commonly perceived as a form of indulgence and immorality. In one of the more interesting aspects of her chapter, Handwerker notes how infertile Chinese women are combining both traditional Chinese medicine and high-tech Western biomedicine to find a solution to their source of shame. While each medical system has its own distinct vision of the body, both, she argues, construe childless women as defects to be corrected. Clearly, the mechanisms of power associated with discerning the "deviant" from the "normal" constrain those placed in the former category while privileging those in the latter.
Shohat 1991: 55) From the start of the scientific revolution, scientists viewed the earth or nature as female, a territory to be explored, exploited, and controlled (Merchant 1980). Newly discovered lands were personified as female, and it seems unsurprising that the women of these nations became the locus of scientific inquiry. Identifying foreign lands as female helped to naturalize their rape and exploitation, but the appearance on the scene of "wild women" raised troubling questions about the status of European women.
Modern surveillance demands the inspection of individuals in order to judge their status, analyze their deficits, and evaluate their function. This has been played out to a large extent through scientific investigations, which, in claiming to be therapeutic and ameliorative, produce an array of varying and contradictory definitions of what could count as deviant. Page 11 Looking into places not readily visible to the layperson in everyday life, science transforms the body into the province of specialists who alone can decode its many signs.