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Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture

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Arguing that bodies are knowable only through culture and history; they are not in any simple way natural, nor are they ever free of relations of power, this volume strees that concepts of deviancy have been used to shore up notions of what is normal - often a white, heterosexual, healthy, male body, and what is not.

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Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture 1995, Indiana University Press

ISBN-13: 9780253328984

Hardcover