Sociology 5651 FA The Body & Society

Readings

• Required: Davidson, Deborah, ed. (2016) The Tattoo Project. Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and The Digital Archive. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
• Davidson, D. (2016) Chapters 1 and 2.
• Turner, T. (1980) "The Social Skin." In J. Cherfas and R. Lewin, eds. Not Work Alone. Beverly Hills: Sage, pp. 112-140 [pdf on D2L].
• Davidson, D. (2016) Chapter 3.
• Howson, A. (2012) Chapter 3 “The Civilized Body” [pdf on D2L].
• Davis, Kathy (1997) “Embody-ing Theory: Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body.” In Davis, K., ed. Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body. London: Sage, pp. 1-26 [pdf on D2L].
• Cavanagh and Sykes (2006), “Transsexual Bodies at the Olympics: The International Olympic Committee’s Policy on Transsexual Athletes at the 2004 Athens Summer Games, Body & Society 12(3):75-102 [E-Journal].
• Davidson, D. (2016) Chapters 4 and 6.
• Kvigne, K. (2014) Masculinity and Strokes: The Challenges Presented to Younger Men by Chronic Illness. Journal of Gender Studies 23(2):197-210 [E-Journal].
• Margolis, Eric (2004) “Looking at discipline, looking at labour: photographic representations of Indian boarding schools.” Visual Studies vol. 19(1):72-96 [E- Journal].
• Smith, Helen and Pamela Wakewich (2013) “Trans/Forming the Citizen Body in Wartime: National and Local Public Discourse on Women’s Bodies and “Body Work” for women during the Second World War.” In Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas (eds.) Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 305-327 [pdf on D2L].
• Wolkowitz, C. “Customer Services,” in Bodies at Work, London: Sage, pp. [pdf on D2L].
• Davidson, D. (2016) Chapter 8.
• Davidson, D. (2016) Chapter 4 and 13.
• Poudrier, J. and J. Kennedy (2008) “Embodiment and the Meaning of the “Healthy’ Body” Journal of Aboriginal Health (January):15-24 [E-Journal].
• Hayhurst, L (2014) The ‘Girl Effect’ and Martial Arts: Social Entrepreneurship, and
• Nettleton, S. and M. Hardey (2006) “Running Away with Health: The Urban Marathon and the Construction of Charitable Bodies” Health 10(4):441-460 [E- Journal].
• Wacquant, L.J. (1994) "Pugs at Work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour among Professional Boxers." Body & Society 1(1):65-94 [pdf on D2L].
• Kruger, E., S. Magnet and J. Van Loon (2008) “Biometric Revisions of the ‘Body’ in Airports and US Welfare Reform.” Body & Society 14(2):99-12[E-Journal].
• Hirschauer, Stefan (2006) “Animated Corpses: Communicating with Post Mortals in an Anatomical Exhibition.” Body & Society 12(4):25-52 [E-Journal].
• Waldby, Catherine (1997) “The Body and the Digital Archive: the Visible Human Project and the Computerization of Medicine.” Health 1(2):227-244 [E-Journal].
• Webb, Jen and San Brynand (2008) “Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope.” Body & Society 14(2):83-98 [E-Journal]. Video links to view on the D2L.
• Wilson, Ara (2011) “Foreign Bodies and National Scales: Medical Tourism in Thailand.” Body & Society 17 (2&3):121-137 [E-Journal].
• Ticktin, Miriam (2011) “How Biology Travels: A Humanitarian Trip.” Body and Society 17 (2&3):39-158 [E-Journal].
• Russell, Amy M. (2013) “Embodiment and Abjection: Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation.” Body & Society 19 (1):82-107 [E-Journal].
• Davidson, D. (2016) Chapters 6, 16, and 19