ANTH 38300 Anthropology of the Body

Principal Periodical Databases

Anthropology and related Social Sciences
  • AnthroSource
  • JSTOR
  • SocINDEX with Full Text
  • PsycINFO
  • Project Muse
General databases with coverage of current events and multiple subject areas
  • Academic Search Premier
  • ProQuest Research Library
  • Alternative Press Index
Medical and Biological
  • MEDLINE (EBSCO) / PubMed
  • SPORTDiscus with Full Text
  • ScienceDirect
Gender
  • GenderWatch
  • Gender Studies Collection
  • LGBT life with Full Text

Films in the Ithaca College Library

A sampling of ebooks

  1. Deborah Lupton. Medicine as culture: illness, disease and the body in Western societies. 2003.
  2. Gillian Bennett. Bodies: sex, violence, disease, and death in contemporary legend. 2005
  3. ​Beauty Unlimited. 2012.
  4. The fat studies reader. 2009.
  5. Gayle Salamon. Assuming a body: transgender and rhetorics of materiality. 2010.
  6. Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs. Body panic: gender, health, and the selling of fitness. 2009.
  7. Sandra Reeve. Nine ways of seeing a body. 2011.
  8. John Tyler Bonner. Why size matters: from bacteria to blue whales. 2006.
  9. Body image and body schema: interdisciplinary perspectives on the body. 2005.
  10. Chris Shilling. The body in culture, technology and society. 2005.
  11. Victoria L. Pitts. In the flesh: the cultural politics of body modification. 2003.
  12. Parasites, worms, and the human body in religion and culture. 2012.

Websites

WomensHealth.gov : Body Image
Government-sponsored Web site promoting women's health. Includes basic information about health topics related to body image: healthy eating, staying active, cosmetic surgery, eating disorders, and teaching children about body image.

Our Bodies, Ourselves
This website, created as a companion to the book Our Bodies, Ourselves, covers topics of sexuality, body image, health, diet, lifestyle, and relationships.

GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
"dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation."

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