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BODY/EMBODIMENT

Body/Embodiment

Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body

Edited by

DENNIS WASKUL
Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA

and

PHILLIP VANNINI
Royal Roads University, Canada

First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 2006 Dennis Waskul and Phillip Vannini

Dennis Waskul and Phillip Vannini have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Body/embodiment : symbolic interaction and the sociology of the body
1.Body, Human - Social aspects 2.Body, Human - Symbolic aspects
I.Waskul, Dennis D., 1969- II.Vannini, Phillip
306.4'613

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Body/embodiment : symbolic interaction and the sociology of the body / edited by Dennis Waskul and Phillip Vannini.

p. cm.

Includes index.
ISBN 0-7546-4726-9

1. Body, Human--Social aspects. 2. Symbolic interactionism. I. Waskul, Dennis D., 1969- II. Vannini, Phillip.

HM636.B584 2006
306.4--dc22

2006009524

ISBN-13: 978 0 7546 4726 3 (hbk)
ISBN-13: 978 1 3155 6963 5 (ebk)

Contents

Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini

Nick Crossley

Kathy Charmaz and Dana Rosenfeld

Douglas Schrock and Emily M. Boyd

Spencer E. Cahill

Carol Brooks Gardner and William P. Gronfein

Paul Atkinson

Neil Stephens and Sara Delamont

Lee F. Monaghan

Keri Brandt

Joseph Kotarba and Matt Held

Richard Huggins

Phillip Vannini and Dennis D. Waskul

Erica Owens and Bronwyn Beistle

Carol Rambo, Sara Rene Presley and Don Mynatt

Charles Edgley

Michael Atkinson

Rachel Westfall

Clinton R. Sanders

List of Figures

Author Biographies

MICHAEL ATKINSON is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. His main teaching and research interests focus on body modification, violence in global sports cultures, masculine aesthetics, and figurational sociology. He has conducted ethnographic research ventures with ticket scalpers, tattoo enthusiasts, Straightedge youth, and elite-level endurance athletes. Michael is author of Tattooed: The Sociogenesis of a Body Art (University of Toronto Press, 2003), and co-author (with Kevin Young) of the forthcoming book, Sport, Deviance and Social Control (Human Kinetics). He has published in diverse academic journals including The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Sociology of Sport Journal, Body & Society, Sex Roles, Youth & Society and International Review of the Sociology of Sport . Michaels current ethnographic projects include studies of cosmetic surgery, criminal violence in Canadian ice hockey, and cultures of ergogenic drug use among male athletes. He is Associate Editor at the journals Deviant Behavior and the Sociology of Sport Journal , and was recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadas Aurora Award in 2004.

PAUL ATKINSON is Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. He is Associate Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics. His publications include: Ethnography: Principles in Practice (with Martyn Hammersley, 2 nd edition, Routledge, 1995), The Clinical Experience (2 nd edition, Ashgate, 1997), The Ethnographic Imagination (Routledge, 1990), Understanding Ethnographic Texts (Sage, 1992), Medical Talk and Medical Work (Sage, 1995), Fighting Familiarity (with Sara Delamont, Hampton, 1995), Making Sense of Qualitative Data (with Amanda Coffey, Sage, 1996), Sociological Readings and Re-Readings (Ashgate, 1996), The Doctoral Experience (with Sara Delamont and Odette Parry, Routledge, 2000), Interactionism (with William Housley, Sage, 2003), Risky Relations (with Katie Featherstone, Aditya Bharadwaj and Angus Clarke, Berg, 2005). His ethnography of the Welsh National Opera Company will be published as Everyday Arias (AltaMira, 2006). Together with Sara Delamont he edits the journal Qualitative Research . He was co-editor of The Handbook of Ethnography (Sage, 2001).

BRONWYN BEISTLE obtained her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. Her dissertation, titled Honeyed Secrets was an investigation of the meanings of Authority, Sexuality, and Flower Imagery in Womens Literature from Wollsonecraft to McGukian.

EMILY M. BOYD is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at Florida State University. Her research interests include gender inequality, sociology of the body, identity, interaction, and mass media. She is currently examining discourse used on the television program Extreme Makeover to discuss bodies, body modification, and identity.

KERI BRANDT is Assistant Professor of sociology at Fort Lewis University. Her dissertation (University of Colorado, Boulder) on the human-horse communication process draws from three years (20012004) of in-depth interviews and participant observation and explores how the two species co-create an embodied language system to construct a world of shared meaning.

SPENCER E. CAHILL is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. He is the immediate past editor of Social Psychology Quarterly and former coeditor of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography . His articles and essays have appeared in such journals as Social Problems, Sociological Theory , and Symbolic Interaction .

KATHY CHARMAZ is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. She teaches in the areas of sociological theory, social psychology, qualitative methods, health and illness, and gerontology. As Coordinator of the Faculty Writing Program, she assists the faculty in writing for publication and leads three faculty seminars on professional writing. She has written or co-edited six books including her 2006 volume, Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis , with Sage Publications, London and

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