The Embodiment of Disobedience or Clinical Massage Therapy

The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies

Author: Andrea Shaw

The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass-market fat anxiety. Andrea Elizabeth Shaw looks at the origins and contradictions of this phenomenon, especially the cultural deviations in beauty criteria and the related social and cultural practices. Unique in its examination of how fatness and blackness interact on literary and cultural planes, this book develops previously unexamined connections among representations of women throughout the African Diaspora.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : fatness and Blackness : a compelling coincidence of erasure	1
1	Reshaping identity	19
2	The anatomy of sexual unruliness	47
3	Bodily abundance	77
4	Spectacles of size : performing bodies of fat Black women	99
	Conclusion : consumption and control : the "epidemic" of fatness	127

Book review: Fractured Europe 1600 1721 or Womanpower

Clinical Massage Therapy: Assessment and Treatment of Orthopedic Conditions

Author: Steven E Jurch

Jurch’s Clinical Massage is designed to outline the principles and foundational understanding of assessing and treating orthopedic injury or dysfunction through massage therapy. The text follows an anatomic region approach, covering surface anatomy and muscle groups before presenting a comprehensive review of the most often presenting orthopedic dysfunctions or conditions. Each dysfunction or condition is reviewed with a consistent diagnostic checklist, a stepped treatment program, and relevant “clinical pearls”. The learning aids throughout the text, along with the reader-friendly writing style, create a highly-effective learning system for understanding the concepts of clinical massage.