Books written by Lisa Jean Moore

Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

Osmond, M. Withers, K. G. Wambach, D. Harrison et al. 1993. "The Multiple Ieopardy of Race, Class, and Gender for AIDS Risk among Women.” Gender 8* Society 7: 99-120. O'Sullivan, S., and P. Parmar. 1992. Lesbians Talk (Safer) Sex.
Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

Indeed, the sociobiologist and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has dedicated much of his research to understanding the life of another social insect, the ant.38 Wilson famously likened ant behavior to a form of socialism where ...
Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

Examines media representations of bees, such as children's books, films, and consumer culture, bringing to light the reciprocal way in which the bee and our idea of the bee inform one another.
The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections

and Essen,N. 2008. “Complications of Chronic Use of Skin Lightening Cosmetics.” International Journal of Dermatology, ... Peters,Stella Roos.2012. “InvisibleVictims:The Effectsof StructuralViolence on Infant and Child Mortality in Papua ...
Catch and Release: The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab

Laughlin, Robert. “The Effects of Temperature and Salinity on Larval Growth of the Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus.” Biological Bulletin 164 (1983): 93–103. Law, John. “Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of the 180 ...
Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

Following the work of the anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, we seek to expand the reach of ethnography, to focus “not just on humans or only on animals but on how humans and animals interact.”35 Reflexively, we are performing an ...
The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections

Some of the earliest and most controversial work in this vein emanated out of sociobiology in the 1970s, particularly the work of Harvard sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson, who received much praise and publicity for his theories of ...
Catch and Release: The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab

"The author considers interactions between horseshoe crabs and humans, through fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2016 at urban beaches near New York City, nature preserves in Japan, and marine research sites in Florida, and interviews ...
Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction

In this lucidly written book, Lemke outlines the stakes and the debates surrounding biopolitics, providing a systematic overview of the history of the notion and making clear its relevance for sociological and contemporary theoretical ...
Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid

For Lisa Jean Moore, how sperm comes to be known is based on who defines it (a scientist vs. a defense witness, for example), under what social circumstances it is found (a doctor’s office vs. a crime scene), and for what purposes it will ...
The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings

That the body plays a central role in work is perhaps an obvious statement, yet it is easy to lose sight of human labor in a capitalist system centered on service, global outsourcing, and automated assembly. To insist upon the physical ...
Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives

For centuries the biological sciences have dissected, measured, and probed the human body as a product of nature. But from a feminist perspective, the human body is a social production....
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries.
Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives

This book focuses on key themes that reveal how gendered relations, ideologies, and practices shape human bodies.
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility

And yet, despite this escalating Orwellian practice by which the government and corporations visually locate and define bodies so as to regulate (and perhaps punish) them, some bodies are conspicuously missing in action. Not all bodies ...
Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature

Lusk, Jayson L., Mustafa Jamal, Lauren Kurlander, Maud Roucan, and Lesley Taulman. ... Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk through the Ages: With 120 Adventurous Recipes That Explore the Riches of Our First Food.
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility

DES Daughters, Embodied Knowledge, and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics in the Late 20th Century. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Berlin, Cheston M., Jr., et al. 2005a. “Conclusions and Recommendations of the Expert ...
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility

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.