2447 - Agency and Embodiment

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

In our society, bodies communicate ideals about social status, morality, sexuality, and other indicators of social positioning. In this session, scholars will discuss agency as it relates to the body. Topics include depiction of bodies in media, ethics of body part transplantation, and the stigmatization of bodies in different social settings. Our discussion will center on the lived experiences of othered bodies. We will investigate the avenues of resistance and agency for othered bodies and examine responses to that resistance.

Sub Unit

• Body, Sociology of the

Session Organizer

• Apryl A. Williams, Harvard University

Individual Presentations

• Anti-beauty work and the perceptions of mental health in people with trichotillomania - Andrea D Kelley, University of Delaware

• Embodiment and Athletic Identity - Michelle Pannor Silver, University of Toronto

• Receiving An Anonymous Face: Face Transplant Patients and Professionals Struggling With the French Anonymous Donation Policy - Marie Le Clainche Piel, EHESS Paris

• The Body and the Question of Subversion - Ayse Alniacik Birelma, University of Pittsburgh

• The Visual Injuries of Class: Structural Violence and the Stigmata of Social Suffering - Philip George Lewin, Florida Atlantic University