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Front Cover; JOURNEYS OF EMBODIMENT AT THE INTERSECTION OF BODY AND CULTURE; Editorial Advisors; JOURNEYS OF EMBODIMENTAT THE INTERSECTIONOF BODY AND CULTURE: THE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY OF EMBODIMENT ; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; BODIES IN DISTRESS; HOLDING A MIRROR TO CULTURE; References; 1 -- The Developmental Theory of Embodiment: Discovering Paths in the Body Journeys of Girls and Women; WHY STUDY EMBODIMENT?; RESEARCH PROGRAM; EXPERIENCE OF EMBODIMENT; Dimension 1: Body Connection and Comfort versus Body Disconnection and Discomfort |
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Dimension 2: Agency and Functionality versus Blocked Agency and RestraintDimension 3: Experience and Expression of Desire versus Disowning Desire; Dimension 4: Attuned Self-care versus Disrupted Attunement, Neglect, and Self-harm; Dimension 5: Inhabiting the Body as a Subjective Site versus as an Objectified Site; Understanding Positive and Negative Embodiment: Innovative Aspects of the Experience of Embodiment Construct; KEY SOCIAL DOMAINS THAT SHAPE EMBODIMENT: THE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY OF EMBODIMENT; The Physical Domain: Physical Freedom versus Physical Corseting |
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Freedom in Physical Engagement and Movement (vs. Corseted and Blocked Physical Engagement and Movement)Freedom in Physical Engagement (vs. Blocked Physical Engagement); Freedom of Movement and of Taking Physical Space (vs. Constriction of Movement and of Physical Space); Safety for the Body Territory (vs. Violations to the Body Territory); Safety from Violations (vs. Exposure to Violations); Safety from Coercive Body Alterations and Practices (vs. Coercive Body Alterations and Practices); Care of the Body (vs. Neglect of Body Care); Freedom of Desire (vs. Restriction of Desire) |
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The Mental Domain: Mental Freedom versus Mental CorsetingAppearance-Related Discourses: The Body as a Deficient Object; Comportment-Related Discourses: Woman as Docile; Regulating Dichotomies and Labels; The Social Power and Relational Connections Domain (vs. Social Disempowerment and Disconnection); Freedom from Prejudice and Harassment; Access to Resources; Freedom from Body-Based Harassment; Freedom from Appearance-Based Social Power; Empowering Relationships; Membership in Equitable Communities; A Social Theory of Embodiment-Innovative Aspects of the Developmental Theory of Embodiment |
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The Body Journeys of Jane and CrystalJane: A Journey of (Mostly) Freedom; Crystal: A Journey with (Multiple) Corsets; CHAPTER SUMMARY; References; 2 -- Qualified Freedom on Borrowed Territories: Early Childhood to Age Eight; MAY I COME IN? PHYSICAL FREEDOM ON BORROWED TERRITORIES; BETWEEN PASSION AND PICTURE DAY: MENTAL FREEDOM IN PERMEABLE BOY/GIRL BOUNDARIES; WHEN SAILOR MOON MEETS BARBIE: GLIMPSES OF SOCIAL POWER IN INEQUITABLE PLAYING FIELDS; CHAPTER SUMMARY; References; 3 -- Intense Transitions: Tweens (Ages 9-12); PINK CORSETS IN THE PHYSICAL TERRITORY |
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Annotation 'Journeys of Embodiment at the Intersection of Body and Culture' describes an innovative developmental and feminist theory - understanding embodiment - to provide a new perspective on the interactions between the social environment of girls and young women of different social locations and their embodied experience of engagement with the world around them |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
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Body image in girls.
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Body image in women.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Control (Psychology)
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Human beings.
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Female
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Humans
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Body Image
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Power, Psychological
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Body Dysmorphic Disorders
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Homo sapiens (species)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Control (Psychology)
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Body image in girls
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Body image in women
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Power (Social sciences)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0128094214 |
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9780128094211 |
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