Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.
| ISBN: | 9781498563864 |
| Publication date: | 20th February 2019 |
| Author: | Jamie A. Thomas, Christina Jackson |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 268 pages |
| Genres: |
Communication studies Feminism and feminist theory Folklore, myths and legends Popular culture Gender studies: women and girls |