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Body and Gender: Sociological Perspectives

Body and Gender: Sociological Perspectives

Sassatelli, Roberta
Ghigi, Rossella

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General Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1509550089
ISBN13: 9781509550081
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: Mar 6 2024
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Even though we often think of bodies as natural and given, or else as freely plastic objects, bodies are both constructed and fundamental to our sense of self.

This book investigates the body as an essential vector of inequality, shaped by institutions, interaction and culture, and how in turn it contributes to partly modify them. Sassatelli and Ghigi show how the process of embodiment is at the same time naturalized and contested, particularly evident in the case of gender. Drawing on classical sociological research about modernity and contemporary studies that emphasize intersectionality, the book looks at how the gendered body has been conceptualized with special attention to body politics, the power of appearance and the representation of embodied identity. It also considers the interplay between body, sex and sexuality and the way gendered bodies intersect with other dimensions of social inequality such as race, age, class and disability.

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