Consuming Bodies Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies

Contributors

 Part I Introduction

 1. Introduction
Sarah Whetstone and Jackie Hogan

2. Thinking Bodies: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Bodies and Embodiment
Jackie Hogan

Part II Bodies and the Commodification of Sex, Love and Desire

3. Consuming Racialized Labor: Sex Tourists, Romance Tourists and Retirement Migrants in the Philippines
Julia Meszaros and Maria Cecilia Hwang

4. “Blackfishing”: Hypersexualization, Racial Parody, and the Fetishization of the Black Femme Body
Maxine K. Wright

5. “Love Addiction” and the Paradox of “Healthy” Love
Tayler Nelson

6. Craving Bigger Bodies: Size, Sexuality, and Becoming Larger
Tony E. Adams

Part III Pleasure, Play and Authenticity in Bodily Expressions

7. Sensory Authenticity: Embodying and Commodifying “the Other”
Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley

8. Pretty, Powerful, and Playful: Self-commodification and “Postfeminist Sensibility” among Women Action Sports Athletes
Charli Kerns

9. Paying to Perform: Self-commodification and Stigma Management Strategies in Contemporary Burlesque
Nicole B. Oehmen and Kathryn Rittenhour

10. Dancing for Ourselves: Autonomy, Community, and Embodied Resistance in Recreational Pole Dancing

Sarah Whetstone

Part IV Disciplining Bodies: Commodification and Social Control

11. Economies of Violence: Pay-to-Stay and the Value of Incarcerated Bodies
Brittany Friedman, April D. Fernandes and Gabriela M. Kirk-Werner

12. The Urbanormative Discipline of Rural Bodies and the Construction of Rural Delinquency
Jimmy Robinson and Margaux Crider Robinson

13.  From “Adopt a Clitoris” to “Designer Vaginas:” Critical Reflections on Genital Surgeries and the Commodification of Female Genitalia
Fae Chubin

Part V Bio-commodification, Bio-ethics, and Biomedical Marketplaces

14. Risky Bodies: BRCA Testing, Previvors, and the Reification of Risk
Jackie Hogan

15. Neoliberal Eugenics in the Egg and Sperm Donation Marketplace
Mia Rosario Milne

16. Organ Transplantation, Surrogacy, and the “Gift” Masquerade
Sanchita Sarkar

17. Corpses, Clients, and Commodification in the Natural Burial Marketplace
Doug Valentine

Index

Biography

Jackie Hogan is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (USA). She has authored three books, including Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood; Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America; and Roots Quest: Inside America’s Genealogy Boom.

Sarah Whetstone is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (USA). Her past research focused on social inequalities in American addiction treatment, punishment, stigma, and suffering in the carceral state. Her new projects explore gender, sport, creative resistance, and embodiment.

This collection, Consuming Bodies, offers a diverse, comprehensive and incisive analysis of the conditions shaping embodiment amidst capitalist processes of commodification. Covering themes across the life-course, from reproductive technologies, the biomaterials trade, cosmetic surgery, and to the natural burial marketplace, chapters provide an impressive range of topics. Authors are at the cutting edge of scholarship and demonstrate the body's significance for understanding the contemporary conditions of our social and cultural worlds. A must-read for students and scholars of health, gender and race, power, and the embodied dynamics of inequalities.

Julia Coffey, Associate Professor of the School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle Australia, author of Everyday Embodiment: Rethinking Youth Body Image (2021)