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Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of societys body outlawsindividuals from myriad social locations who oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body. Original research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative interviews, and participant observation) along with personal narratives provide a window into the everyday lives of people rewriting the norms of embodiment in sites like schools, sporting events, and doctors offices.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 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 Womens Oppositional Embodiment | Kelly Grove and Doug Schrock Living Resistance:*; A Cystors 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 Mens Performative Protest Against Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth | Jason Whitesel*; Whats 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 Pause 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: