Chris Bobel & Samantha Kwan 
Body Battlegrounds [EPUB ebook] 
Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations

Introduction |
Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan
Part I: Going “Natural”
Chapter 1: Body Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair |
Breanne Fahs
Chapter 2: Radical Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment |
Monica Basile
Chapter 3: Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy |
Anne Esacove
Living Resistance:
• Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging Medical Advice Following Mastectomy |
Joanna Rankin
• My Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the “Kink” in My Hair…Today |
Cheryl Thompson
• Living My Full Life: Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder |
Christina Fisanick
• Pretty Brown: Encounters with My Skin Color |
Praveena Lakshmanan
Part II: Representing Resistance
Chapter 4: Blood as Resistance: Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism |
Shayda Kafai
Chapter 5: Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet?: Resistance through Parody in the Pretty or Ugly You Tube Trend |
Katherine Phelps
Chapter 6: The Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women’s Oppositional Embodiment |
Kelly Grove and Doug Schrock
Living Resistance:
• A Cystor’s Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative Femininity |
Ledah Mc Kellar
• Old Bags Take a Stand: A Face Off with Ageism in America |
Faith Baum and Lori Petchers
• Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist Disembodiment |
Haley Gentile
• I Am a Person Now: Autism, Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome |
Alyssa Hillary
Part III: Creating Community, Disrupting Assumptions
Chapter 7: Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The Complexity of Black Girls’ Resistance |
Stephanie D. Sears and Maxine Leeds Craig
Chapter 8: Big Gay Men’s Performative Protest against Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth |
Jason Whitesel
Chapter 9: “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: The Embodied Activism of Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare |
Sheila M. Katz
Living Resistance:
• “Your Signing Is So Beautiful!”: The Radical Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public |
Rachel Kolb
• Two Shakes |
Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer
• “Showing Our Muslim”: Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox |
Sara Rehman
• “Doing Out”: A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the Bronx |
Mark Broomfield
• Everybody: Making Fat Radio for All of Us |
Cat Pausé
Part IV: Transforming Institutions and Ideologies
Chapter 10: Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life |
J. E. Sumerau
Chapter 11: Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into Law |
J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Chapter 12: Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton Twirlers’ Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain |
Trenton M. Haltom
Chapter 13: “That Gentle Somebody”: Rethinking Black Female Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South Africa |
Taylor Riley
Living Resistance:
• Showing Up as Myself: Embodiment and Authenticity in the Classroom |
Ryan Ambuter
• Sitting and Resisting: How Using a Wheelchair Confronts Ideas of Normal |
Margaret Stran
• Against Diabetic Numerology in a Black Body, or, Why I Cannot Live by the Numbers |
Anthony Ryan Hatch
• My Women’s Studies Professor Uses Botox? |
Dana Berkowitz
Afterword: Bodies of Resistance |
Sonya Renee Taylor
Contributors
Index

Samantha Kwan is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Houston and is co-editor (along with Chris Bobel) of Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules and Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations, both published by Vanderbilt.