Body politics - Power knowledge and the body in the social sciences
edited by Martin Terre Blanche, Kum-Kum Bhavnani & Derek Hook
published by Histories of the Present Press
Table of Contents
Section one: Body building in the late twentieth century
Edited by Alex Butchart, James Sey & Neil Lightfoot
2 Gifts of the body: Women's corporeal practices between norms and transgression .
Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer
3 Manifestations of the Body in Early German Social Policy: The German 'Bund fuer
Mutterschutz' 1905-1916.
Regine Heidenreich
4 Windsurfing women, tacking upwind in male infested waters.
Val Woodward
5 Black bodies, white gaze: Western medicine and the African in South Africa.
Alex Butchart
6 Crowds in space.
Kevin Durrheim and Vaughan Dutton
7 Forms of violence in technospace.
James Sey
8 Arriving in gender-fuck drag squirming with queer exhibitionistic anticipation as Eddie
prepares to pierce my foreskin.
Vasili Kapetanakis alias Dame Collonica Drek
9 "If the Glove Does Not Fit"... O.J. Simpson and the US Imaginary.
Kum-Kum Bhavnani
10 The headmaster's study.
Kevin Kelly and Susan Sedumedi
Section two: Suffering bodies - moral orthopaedics of the body and soul
Edited by Bronwyn Harris, Derek Hook & Claudia Landsman
12 Story-telling and the socialization of rural pre-school children in times of social change.
Mary van der Riet
13 "What is the risk of the wife getting AIDS?": psychological regimes of body regulation in talk
about HIV/AIDS and monogamy-rules in advice columns.
Lindy Wilbraham
14 'Healing the Nation': The Symbolic Function(ing)s of the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission.
Simon Stacey
15 Dialogical space, differance, and desire: conversations on the margins.
Andrew Favell
16 Controlling dangerous bodies: the dilemma faced by women at genetic risk of breast or
ovarian cancer.
Nina Hallowell
17 Surplus Women, Sharp Agents: Anorexia as Resistance?
Sharon Fuller
Edited by Vasi van Deventer, Kenneth Wilson & Johan Kruger
19 The politic of the body (in the motion of the ocean).
Vasi van Deventer
20 Bodies of knowledge: processes of learning.
Gudrun Kober
21 Description versus interpretation? - Phenomenology and hermeneutics as competing
sense-making strategies in psychological research.
Gavin Ivey
22 The hermeneutics of distanciation in programme evaluation.
Kevin Kelly
23 Discourses, contexts and diachronic analysis: Exploring Margaret Thatcher's speeches on the
Falklands/Malvinas conflict.
Mark Levine
24 Unrepresentables.
James Sey & Derek Hook (Images by Kathryn Smith)
25 Subtitle: Vile Retentions.
Moshekwa Langa