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Bodies without borders / edited by Erynn Masi de Casanova and Afshan Jafar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: xxi, 204 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1137372184
  • 9781137372185
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4613 23
LOC classification:
  • BF697.5.B63 B57 2013
Contents:
1. The Global Martial Circuit and Globalized Bodies / Lionel Loh Han Loong -- 2. West Indian Immigrant Women, Body Politics, and Cultural Citizenship / Kamille Gentles-Peart -- 3. Don't You See? (Personal Reflection) / Monica G. Moreno Figueroa -- 4. New Femininity, Neoliberalism, and Young Women's Fashion Blogs in Singapore and Malaysia / Joel Gwynne -- 5. Fashion of Fear: Securing the Body in an Unequal Global World / Barbara Sutton -- 6. My Struggle with the Headscarf (Personal Reflection) / Nahed Eltantawy -- 7. The Face Is the Mask: Global Modifications of the Body and Soul (Personal Reflection) / Thomas J. D. Armbrecht -- 8. Images in Skin: Tattooed Performers in Germany in the Twentieth Century and Today / Verena Hutter -- 9. Fragments: Stories of An-Other Life (Personal Reflection) / Anisha Gautam -- 10. "A Mover la Colita": Zumba Dance-Fitness in Mexico and Beyond / Diana Brenscheidt.
Summary: Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the driving force of global change, and people have human bodies that are absent in current conversations about globalization. The original scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness classes to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of tattooing, the contributors examine migrating body practices and ideals that stretch across national boundaries -- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Global Martial Circuit and Globalized Bodies / Lionel Loh Han Loong -- 2. West Indian Immigrant Women, Body Politics, and Cultural Citizenship / Kamille Gentles-Peart -- 3. Don't You See? (Personal Reflection) / Monica G. Moreno Figueroa -- 4. New Femininity, Neoliberalism, and Young Women's Fashion Blogs in Singapore and Malaysia / Joel Gwynne -- 5. Fashion of Fear: Securing the Body in an Unequal Global World / Barbara Sutton -- 6. My Struggle with the Headscarf (Personal Reflection) / Nahed Eltantawy -- 7. The Face Is the Mask: Global Modifications of the Body and Soul (Personal Reflection) / Thomas J. D. Armbrecht -- 8. Images in Skin: Tattooed Performers in Germany in the Twentieth Century and Today / Verena Hutter -- 9. Fragments: Stories of An-Other Life (Personal Reflection) / Anisha Gautam -- 10. "A Mover la Colita": Zumba Dance-Fitness in Mexico and Beyond / Diana Brenscheidt.

Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the driving force of global change, and people have human bodies that are absent in current conversations about globalization. The original scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness classes to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of tattooing, the contributors examine migrating body practices and ideals that stretch across national boundaries -- Back cover.

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