Political Economy, Power and the Body

CHARLOTTE HOOPER Teaches Gender and International Relations, Department of Politics, Bristol UniversityPALENA R. NEALE has recently completed her PhD at University of Wales, AberystwythJANE L. PARPART Professor of International Development Studies, Women's Studies and History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, CanadaJAN JINDY PETTMAN Reader and Director, Centre for Women's Studies, Australian National UniversityCYNTHIA WEBER Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue UniversityMARC WILLIAMS International Relations, University of SussexMARYSIA ZALEWSKI Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

• Notes on the Contributors List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction SECTION I: EMBODIED POLITICAL ECONOMY Embodied Political Economy or An Escape from Disembodied Knowledge; G.Youngs Disembodiment, Embodiment and the Constriction of Hegemonic Masculinity; C.Hooper Writing the Body: Transnational Sex; J.J.Pettman SECTION II: TECHNOLOGIES, SYMBOLISM and REPRESENTATION Globalization, Technology and Consumption; G.Youngs Imagineering Value: Good Neighbourliness in a Era of Disney; C.Weber Missing Mother? Reproductive Technologies into the 21st Century; M.Zalewski SECTION III: EMBODIED IDENTITIES The Political Economy of Meat: Food, Culture and Identity; M.Williams The Widow Refuses: Embodied Practices and Negotiations over Inheritance in Zimbabwe; J.L.Parpart Population, Politics and the Pope: Universal Agendas and the Bodies of Women; P.Neale Index