By Mary Evans, Ellie Lee
This introductory textual content units out to make the hyperlinks among sociological theories of the physique and genuine human behaviour and event. It covers a wide variety of issues, from long-standing sociological issues to extra modern matters. With a spotlight at the changeability of the physique, it examines the half that our bodies play within the social building of different types similar to race, sexuality and incapacity and explores how we convey ourselves via bodies, no matter if in consuming, gown or ache. It additionally debates how the physique is regulated, either throughout the existence direction and in replica.
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Again this draws on a particular, if different, understanding of a sexual encounter where it is the woman who initiates the sex, enticing a man into her bed. Note the imagery deployed in the following citation from a scientific report influenced by the latter model: A human egg cell does not idle languidly in the female reproductive tract, like some Sleeping Beauty waiting for a sperm Prince Charming to come along and waken it for fertilization. Instead, new research indicates that most eggs actively beckon to would-be partners, releasing an as-yetunidentified chemical to lure sperm cells (Science News cited in Daniels, 1997, p.
Anita Hill was not afforded the same luxury as she was interrogated about penises and pornography, with barely a thought for her moral and religious upbringing. Similarly when the ‘National Committee for Sexualized Bodies 43 Mercy for Mike’ spoke of Tyson as an ‘African-American hero’ and ‘role model for black youth’, they offered a map of reality on which the experience of African-American women who identified with Desiree Washington’s ordeal did not appear. When Clarence Thomas described his hearings as a ‘high-tech lynching’, he cynically exploited the analogy in two ways.
To replace ‘race’ with ‘ethnicity’ 46 Racialized Bodies 47 would be to erase too many traces of this history. In my discussion of colonial and scientific discourses below, it will become clear that this history is a history of appropriation and violence. It is important that we keep explicit the link between this history and the racialization of bodies, and the shift from ‘race’ to ‘ethnicity’ in official discourses of multiculturalism often means the forgetting of these histories of violence, and hence a de-politizing or neutralization of the terrain (Ahmed, 2000, Chapter 5).