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Original research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative interviews, and participant observation) along with personal narratives provide a window into the everyday lives of people rewriting the norms of embodiment in sites like schools, sporting events, and doctors' offices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart I: \u003ci\u003eGoing \"Natural\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- \u003ci\u003eBody Hair Battlegrounds: The Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair\u003c\/i\u003e Breanne Fahs \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- \u003ci\u003eRadical Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment\u003c\/i\u003e Monica Basile \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy\u003c\/i\u003e Anne Esacove \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving Resistance: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging Medical Advice Following Mastectomy\u003c\/i\u003e Joanna Rankin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- My Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the \"Kink\" in My Hair . . . Today\u003c\/i\u003e Cheryl Thompson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Living My Full Life: My Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder\u003c\/i\u003e Christina Fisanick \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Pretty Brown: Encounters with My Skin Color\u003c\/i\u003e Praveena Lakshmanan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart II: \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Blood as Resistance: Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism\u003c\/i\u003e Shayda Kafai \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet?: Resistance through Parody in the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend\u003c\/i\u003e Katherine Phelps \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- The Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women's Oppositional Embodiment\u003c\/i\u003e Kelly Grove and Doug Schrock \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving Resistance: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- A Cystor's Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative Femininity\u003c\/i\u003e Ledah McKellar \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Old Bags Take a Stand: A Face Off with Ageism in America\u003c\/i\u003e Faith Baum and Lori Petchers \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist Disembodiment\u003c\/i\u003e Haley Gentile \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- I Am a Person Now: Autism, Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome\u003c\/i\u003e Alyssa Hillary \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart III: \u003ci\u003eCreating Community, Disrupting Assumptions\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The Complexity of Black Girls' Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e Stephanie D. Sears and Maxine Leeds Craig \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Big Gay Men's Performative Protest Against Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e Jason Whitesel \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \"What's Love Got to Do with It?\" The Embodied Activism of Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare\u003c\/i\u003e Sheila M. Katz \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving Resistance: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \"Your Signing Is So Beautiful!\" The Radical Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public\u003c\/i\u003e Rachel Kolb \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Two Shakes\u003c\/i\u003e Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \"Showing Our Muslim\" Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e Sara Rehman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \"Doing Out\" A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the Bronx\u003c\/i\u003e Mark Broomfield \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Everybody: Making Fat Radio for All of Us\u003c\/i\u003e Cat Pausé \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart IV: \u003ci\u003eTransforming Institutions and Ideologies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e J. E. Sumerau \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into Law\u003c\/i\u003e J. Shoshanna Ehrlich \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton Twirlers' Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain\u003c\/i\u003e Trenton M. Haltom \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \"That Gentle Somebody\" Rethinking Black Female Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e Taylor Riley \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving Resistance:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Bobel\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and \u003cb\u003eSamantha Kwan\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston, are co-editors of \u003ci\u003eEmbodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Vanderbilt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamantha Kwan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. 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