Part of the Longman Topics reader series, Body and Culture is not simply about the impact of our society on our physical appearance. Rather, it almost ignores the physicality of the body and, instead, treats it as a medium through which a person can express his or her culture.
This collection of readings explores the ideas and ethics behind the choices made in reacting to and expressing culture. It is also important to understand the consequences of culture's toll on the body. The text includes six chapters, which break up the essays according to the aspect of culture affecting the body. These influences include a wide range such as psychology, media, and dance. Each chapter includes a section entitled 멦opics for Exploration and Writing?that is designed to aid in introducing students to approaching and considering an essay topic.
밚ongman Topics?are brief, attractive readers on a single, complex, but compelling topic. Featuring about 30 full-length selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.
1. Mind, Body, Spirit
Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
Joan and Miroslav Borysenko, Psychoneuroimmunology: Where Mind and Body Meet
Jack Kornfield, Necessary Healing
Topics for Exploration and Writing
2. Sports and Difference
Stuart Ewen, Hard Bodies
Michael A. Messner, Sport and Gender Relations: Continuity, Contradiction, and Change
Becky Beal, Alternative Masculinity and Its Effect on Gender Relations in the Subculture of Skateboarding
Malcolm Gladwell, The Sports Taboo
Topics for Exploration and Writing
3. Body Modification
Arnold Rubin, Marks of Civilization
Philippe Liotard, The Body Jigsaw
Shannon Bell, Tattooed: A Participant Observer's
Exploration of Meaning
Joe Woodard, Pumped, Pierced, Painted and Pagan
Theodore Dalrymple, Marks of Shame: Tattoos and What to Do about Them
Topics for Exploration and Writing
4. Body, Image, Media
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Story of My Body?
Susan Bordo, Never Just Pictures: Bodies and Fantasies
Carol Moog, Media Mirrors
Diane Barthel, A Gentleman and a Consumer
Topics for Exploration and Writing
5. Medicine and Technology
Robin Marantz Henig, Pandora's Baby
Laura Hershey, Choosing Disability?br style='mso-data-placement:same-cell;'>
Ian Wilmut, Cloning for Medicine
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Keeping an Eye on the Global Traffic in Human Organs
Joshua Wolf Shenk, America's Altered States
Topics for Exploration and Writing
6. Dance
Martha Graham, I Am a Dancer
Havelock Ellis, The Art of Dancing
Peter Braunstein, Disco
Marion Rudin Frank, Ballet as a Way of Knowing
Topics for Exploration and Writing
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