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30% discount for all listserv subscribers! Missing Bodies The Politics of Visibility Monica Casper &Lisa Moore "Missing Bodies focuses our attention on what is not there, and thus brilliantly illuminates just what is! This is a creative, thoughtful, exciting book, a fine contribution to the growing literature on the sociology of the body." - Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Recreating Motherhood "Shows the structural and symbolic processes underlying bodily erasure and exposure; a major accomplishment." - Nelly Oudshoorn, author of The Male Pill We know more about the physical body - how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes - than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others and some bodies are not recognised at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labour, migration, medical tourism and war. This new politics of visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies - Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch - and to the near invisibility of others - dead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and "natural" disasters. Missing Bodies presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically, obscures or erases them. It poses difficult, even startling questions: Why did it take so long for the United States media to begin telling stories about the "falling bodies" of 9/11? Why has the United States government refused to allow photographs or filming of flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of soldiers who are dying in Iraq? Why are the bodies of girls and women so relentlessly sexualised? By examining the cultural politics at work in such disappearances and inclusions of the physical body the authors show how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society. New York University Press August 2009 240pp £13.99 PB 9780814716786 Monica J. Casper is Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Women's Studies, and Director of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, at Arizona State University's New College. Lisa Jean Moore is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies and Coordinator of Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICE OF £10.00 to Listserv subscribers Postage and Packing £3.50 (PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER: CSMB0110AR for discount) To order a copy please contact Marston on 44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit our website: http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/catalogue.asp?ex=fitem&target=9780814716786&fmt=f where you can still receive your discount Rebecca Cook Marketing Assistant Combined Academic Publishers 15a Lewin's Yard East Street Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 1HQ Phone: +44 (0)1494 588 050 Fax: +44 (0)1494 581 602 www.combinedacademic.co.uk <http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk>