Chris Bobel & Samantha Kwan 
Embodied Resistance [PDF ebook] 
Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules

Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society’s contemporary ‘body outlaws’–people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden.  This collection ventures beyond the conventional focus on the ‘disciplined body’ and instead, examines conformity from the perspective of resisters.   By balancing accessibly written original ethnographic research with personal narratives, Embodied Resistance provides a window into the everyday lives of those who defy or violate socially constructed body rules and conventions.

About the author

Samantha Kwan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. She has published in Qualitative Health Research, Sociological Inquiry, and Teaching Sociology.