
Embodied Difference
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Christina Jackson is assistant professor of sociology at Stockton University.
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Unit One: The Rational Mind vs. The Criminal Body
Preface to Unit One
Chapter 1 - Our Own Flesh and Blood: Putting the Body at the Center of Violence and Dehumanization - Krista K. Thomason
Chapter 2 - Are We Our Brains? How Early Christianity Shaped Western Ideas About Power, Morality, and Personhood - Jessica Wright
Chapter 3 - Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis - Ute Bettray
Unit Two: The Deviant and Undesirable Body
Preface to Unit Two
Chapter 4 - Bias, Brains, and Skulls: Tracing the Legacy of Scientific Racism in the 19th Century Works of Samuel George Morton and Friedrich Tiedemann - Paul Wolff Mitchell and John S. Michael
Chapter 5 - Female Vampires as Embodied Critiques of Heteronormativity, Blood-Mixing, and Patriarchy: From Carmilla to Fledgling - Dorisa Costello
Chapter 6 - Protest Bodies: The Right to Protect Your Own in Environmental Justice and Redevelopment Battles - Christina Jackson
Chapter 7 - Death and the Power of the Young Female Body: Iconic Legal Cases - Barry Furrow
Unit Three: The Beautiful Body and Its Parts
Preface to Unit Three
Chapter 8 - Gray Matters: Social Violence and the Victorian Surgical Textbook - Emily August
Chapter 9 - 'Tuck in Your Derrière': Butts and Bodies in Ballet and Tap - Kat Richter
Chapter 10 - The Year is 2093: Reanimation from Frankenstein to Prometheus as Sci-fi Metaphor for (Dis)Embodied Female Futures and Colonization of Space - Jamie A. Thomas
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