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Contents: Introduction: The body and symbolic interaction, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini. The Looking-Glass Body: Reflexivity as Embodiment: The networked body and the question of reflexivity, Nick Crossley; Reflections of the body, images of self: visibility and invisibility in chronic illness and disability, Kathy Charmaz and Dana Rosenfeld; Reflexive transembodiment, Douglas Schrock and Emily Boyd. The Dramaturgical Body: Body as Performance: Building bodily boundaries: embodied enactment and experience, Spencer E. Cahill; Body armor: managing disability and the precariousness of the territories of the self, Carol Brooks Gardner and William P. Gronfein; Opera and the embodiment of performance, Paul Atkinson; Samba no mar: bodies, movement, and idiom in Capoeira, Neil Stephens and Sara Delamont. The Phenomenological Body: Body as Province of Meaning: Corporeal indeterminacy: the value of embodied, interpretive sociology, Lee F. Monaghan; Intelligent bodies: embodied subjectivity and human-horse communication, Keri Brandt; Professional female football players: tackling like a girl?, Joseph Kotarba and Matt Held; The addict's body: embodiment, drug use, and representation, Richard Huggins. The Socio-Semiotic Body: Body as Trace of Culture: Body ekstasis: socio-semiotic reflections on surpassing the dualism of body-image, Phillip Vannini and Dennis D. Waskul; Eating the black body: interracial desire, food metaphor and white fear, Erica Owens and Bronwyn Beistle; Claiming the bodies of exotic dancers: the problematic discourse of commodification, Carol Rambo, Sara Renée Presley and Don Mynatt. The Narrative Body: Body as Story: The fit and healthy body: consumer narratives and the management of postmodern corporeity, Charles Edgley; Masks of masculinity: (sur)passing narratives and cosmetic surgery, Michael Atkinson; The pregnant/birthing body: negotiations of personal autonomy, Rachel Westfall. Conclusion: Viewing the body: an overview, exploration and extension, Clinton R. Sanders; Index.