Interpreting the Body

Anne Marie Champagne is a PhD candidate in sociology and Center for Cultural Sociology junior fellow at Yale University.Asia Friedman is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Delaware.

• Introduction: Between Meaning and Matter - Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman1. Toward a Strong Cultural Sociology of the Body and Embodiment - Anne Marie Champagne2. Thinking the Molecular - Ben Spatz3. Interpreting Africa’s Seselelãme: Bodily Ways of Knowing in a Globalized World - Kathryn Linn Geurts and Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie4. Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in Nervous Conditions - Sweta Rajan-Rankin and Mrinalini Greedharry5. Reinterpreting Male Bodies and Health in Crisis Times: From “Obesity” to Bigger Matters - Lee F. Monaghan6. Beauty, Breasts, and Meaning after Mastectomy - Piper Sledge7. “You Are Not the Body”: (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga - Erin F. Johnston8. Black Girls’ Bodies and Belonging in the Classroom - Brittney Miles9. Embodied Vulnerability and Sensemaking with Solidarity Activists - Chandra Russo10. Our Bodies, Our Disciplines, Our Selves - Annemarie Jutel

“This book will leave you with a new approach to the mind/body divide. With a meaningful set of contributions from a wide range of leading scholars, it fills an important gap in how we understand body and embodiment. A much-needed and impressive accomplishment.” Georgiann Davis, University of New Mexico