Constructing Gendered Bodies

PAULA BLACK Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester RUTH BUTLER Lecturer in Applied Social Research, University of Hull TOM DELPH-JANIUREK Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Walter, Lampeter RICHARD EKINS Psychoanalyst and Reader in Sociology, University of Ulster, Coleraine JENS GERMON Ph.D. Student, University of Sydney, Australia PHILIP HANCOCK Lecturer in Sociology and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University MYRA HIRD Lecturer, School of Sociology and Social Policy, The Queen's University, Belfast SHEILA HENDERSON Independent Research Consultant JANET HOLLAND Professor of Social Research, Director of the Social Science Research Centre, South Bank University, London STEVI JACKSON Director of the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York DAVE KING Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Studies, University of Liverpool SHEENA McGRELLIS Visiting Research Fellow, University of Ulster TERRY O'NEILL Completing research entitled, Managing the Margins: the Constitution of the Gay-Disabled Subject JOANNA PHOENIX Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bath SUE SCOTT Professor of Sociology, University of Durham SUE SHARP Researcher, Institute of Education, University of London RACHEL THOMSON Senior Research Fellow, Social Science Research Council, South Bank University MELISSA TYLER Lecturer in Sociology, Glasgow Caledonian University DANA WILSON-KOVACS Researcher, University of Exeter CAROL WOLKOWITZ Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices.Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices. Contributors explore these issues in a variety of settings ranging from the workplace and leisure industry to social arenas of moral and medical regulation.