Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Embodiment: Learning, Viewing, Knowing, Doing; 2 Contextualizing Embodied Performance of Gender; 3 Frames of Investigation; 4 Signification of the Body; 5 Model Bodies; 6 Embodiment and Regulation; 7 Bodies Getting By; 8 Challenging Norms; 9 Embodied Performance of Gender in the Worlds of High School Students; 10 Embodied Performance of Gender in the Worlds of Adults; 11 Conclusion; Appendix; Index
Summary
Norms of embodied behaviour for males and females, as promoted in mainstream Western public arenas of popular culture and the everyday, continue to work, overtly and covertly, as definitive and restrictive barriers to the realm of possibilities of embodied gender expression and appreciation. They serve to disempower and marginalize those not inclined to embody according to such dichotomous models. This book explores the ramifications of the way our gendered, sexed and culturally constructed bodies are situated toward notions of difference and highlights the need to safeguard the social and emo
