Includes bibliographical references.

A history of women's bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing is seeing : biology as ideology / Judith Lorber -- Becoming a gendered body : practices of preschools / Karin A. Martin -- Medicalization, natural childbirth, and birthing experiences / Sarah Jane Brubaker and Heather E. Dillaway -- Foucault, femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Breasted experience : the look and the feeling / Iris Marion Young -- Daring to desire : culture and the bodies of adolescent girls / Deborah L. Tolman -- A tale of two technologies : HPV vaccination, male circumcision, and sexual health / Laura M. Carpenter and Monica J. Casper -- "Get your freak on" : sex, babies, and images of black femininity / Patricia Hill Collins -- Brain, brow, and booty : Latina iconicity in US popular culture / Isabel Molina Guzman and Angharad N. Valdivia -- "So full of myself as a chick" : goth women, sexual independence, and gender egalitarianism / Amy C. Wilkins -- Designing women : cultural hegemony and the exercise of power among women who have undergone elective mammoplasty / Patricia Gagne and Deanna McGaughey -- Women and their hair : seeking power through resistance and accommodation / Rose Weitz -- Navigating public spaces : gender, race, and body privilege in everyday life / Samantha Kwan -- The moral underpinnings of beauty : a meaning-based explanation for light and dark complexions in advertising / Shyon Baumann -- Reclaiming the female body : women body modifiers and feminist debates / Victoria Pitts -- From the "muscle moll" to the "butch" ballplayer : mannishness, lesbianism, and homophobia in US women's sport / Susan K. Cahn -- Branded with infamy : inscriptions of poverty and class in the United States / Vivyan C. Adair -- Backlash and continuity : the political trajectory of fetal rights / Rachel Roth -- Hijab and American muslim women : creating the space for autonomous selves / Rhys H. Williams and Gira Vashi -- Compulsive heterosexuality : masculinity and dominance / C.J. Pascoe -- Being undocumented and intimate partner violence (IPV) : multiple vulnerabilities through the lens of feminist intersectionality / Margaret E. Adams and Jacquelyn Campbell.