Original research chapters are balanced with personal narratives.
Table of Contents Introduction - Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan Part I: Going "Natural" - Body Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair - Breanne Fahs - Radical Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment - Monica Basile - 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: My 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 - Blood as Resistance: Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism - Shayda Kafai - Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet?: Resistance through Parody in the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend - Katherine Phelps - 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 McKellar - 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 - Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The Complexity of Black Girls' Resistance - Stephanie D. Sears and Maxine Leeds Craig - Big Gay Men's Performative Protest Against Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth - Jason Whitesel - "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 Paus Part IV: Transforming Institutions and Ideologies - Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life - J. E. Sumerau - Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into Law - J. Shoshanna Ehrlich - Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton Twirlers' Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain - Trenton M. Haltom - "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