473 - Section on Body and Embodiment Paper Session. Open Topic on Bodies and Embodiment

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

The ASA Section on the Body and Embodiment seeks new, creative work on human and nonhuman bodies, how they constitute and reflect the social world, and how thinking about the body intersects with other areas of sociological thought. We welcome papers on a range of topics, including: theorizing embodiment, embodying inequality, migration and the body, embodiment over the life course, disciplining bodies, bodies at work and leisure, bodily change, and representing bodies.

Sub Unit

• Section on Body and Embodiment / Open Topic on Bodies and Embodiment

Session Organizer

• Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago

Presider

• Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago

Individual Presentations

• Baby Weight, Health, and the Self: Pregnant Women and Body Image in the “Obesity Epidemic” - David J. Hutson, Penn State University, Abington

• Bodily Capital: Capturing the Role of the Body in Social Inequality - Ellis Prentis Monk, Princeton University

• Body Language: Inserting Bodily Experience into Sociological Analysis - Sara Rubin, UCSF

• Voice Lift: Corporeal Imaginaries in Voice Estrangement - Mickey Vallee, Athabasca University

Discussant

• Katherine Mason, Wheaton College