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Friont Cover\nSeries page\nInterpreting The Body: Between Meaning and Matter\nCopyright information\nDedication\nTable of Contents\nSeries Editors’ Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology—On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life\nNotes on Contributors\nPreface and Acknowledgments\nIntroduction\n References\n1 Toward a Strong Cultural Sociology of the Body and Embodiment\n Culture and the body: modern, postmodern, and contemporary themes\n The “absent presence” of culture and the body in early sociology\n Interpreting modernity: the postmodern crisis of meaning and cultural thematization of materiality and the body\n Toward a strong cultural sociology of the body and embodiment\n The interpretive methodology of a strong cultural sociology of the body and embodiment\n Cultural codes and the relative autonomy of culture\n The hermeneutic reconstruction of meaning\n Maximal interpretation: theory, description, and explanation\n Conclusion\n Notes\n References\n2 Thinking the Molecular\n Hard and soft molecules\n The romance of the molecular\n Radical asymmetry\n Notes\n References\n3 Interpreting Africa’s Seselelãme\n Seselelãme in African everyday terms and in academic parlance\n Seselelãme and globalization\n Ewe speakers interpret seselelãme\n Psychology, possessive individualism, and seselelãme’s intersubjectivity\n Concluding remarks\n Notes\n References\n4 Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in Nervous Conditions\n Phenomenology of Blackness\n Gendering the colonial body\n Literature as organic theory\n Setting the scene: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions\n A colonial education\n Regulating “good native girls”\n Sick bodies: hunger, longing, and wasting away\n Ambivalence and arrival\n An end to nervous conditions?\n Note\n References\n5 Reinterpreting Male Bodies and Health in Crisis Times: From “Obesity” to Bigger Matters\n The “problem” of men’s and boys’ weight/fatness: things are not what they seem\n Structured health inequalities: insights from medical sociology and men’s health\n Concluding reflections\n Acknowledgments\n References\n6 Beauty, Breasts, and Meaning after Mastectomy\n The meaning of beauty in breast cancer recovery\n Methods\n Reinterpreting beauty\n Form and function\n Symmetry: beauty or vanity?\n Scars as beautiful\n Supports for reinterpreting beauty\n Family interactions\n Proximity to queerness\n Conclusion\n Notes\n References\n7 “You Are Not the Body”: (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga\n Making sense of embodied religious practices\n Data and methods\n Downplaying the physical: vocabularies of motive and transcendent goals\n The body as object: metaphor, analogy, and practical enactment\n Facilitating embodied experiences: verbal instruction in practice\n Reflections and conclusions\n Notes\n References\n8 Black Girls’ Bodies and Belonging in the Classroom\n Misogynoir and anti-Black discursive frameworks\n Symbolic interactionism and bodies: a discursive-interactionist frame\n The mis/reading of Black girls’ bodies in schools\n Black talk, backtalk, and sass\n Quiet Black girls and silence as resolve\n Loud, laughing Black girls\n Dress code violations when wearing and styling Black girlhood\n Conclusion\n Notes\n References\n9 Embodied Vulnerability and Sensemaking with Solidarity Activists\n Making sense of embodied vulnerability\n Embodied vulnerability and the shape of research\n Interpreting labors\n Interpreting raced and gendered bodies\n Conclusion\n Acknowledgments\n Notes\n References\n10 Our Bodies, Our Disciplines, Our Selves\n Note\n References\nIndex