[PDF.18yt] The Chosen Body: The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences)

The Chosen Body: The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences)

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 | #1521869 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  2004-11-15 |  2004-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.55 | File type: PDF | 190 pages

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|| |"The Chosen Body demonstrates that passionate scholarship is not an oxymoron . . . . [This] is a great ethnography of how societies shape bodies, but its importance as a work of moral testimony may be even greater." (Canadian Journal of Sociology Onl

This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. To construct a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect, the author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in Israel in a range of subjects. These include premarital and prenatal screening, the regulation of the body and its imagery among appearance-impaired children and their familie...

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