Nat Lazakis

Body Odor and Biopolitics

Characterizing Smell in Neoliberal America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally rooted in stereotypes about race and class, the modern norm of bodily odorlessness emerged amid 19th and early 20-century developments in urban sanitation, labor relations and product marketing. Today, discrimination against strong-smelling people includes spatial segregation and termination from employment yet goes unchallenged by social justice movements. This book examines how neoliberal rhetoric legitimizes treating strong-smelling people as defective individuals rather than a marginalized group, elevates authority figures into arbiters of odor, and drives sales of hygiene products for making bodies acceptable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781476683287
• ISBN-10: 147668328X
• Artikelnr.: 64197096

Autorenporträt

Nat Lazakis is an independent researcher who studies how late capitalist institutions affect experiences of embodiment and place. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Radical Librarianship and in Ethics and the Environment. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
One-The Neoliberal History of Body Odor
Two-Policing Rented Bodies: Odor in the Workplace
Three-Gated Communities of Knowledge: Public Libraries' Body Odor Bans and
the Spatial Politics of Purity
Four-Elusive Allies
Five-Is Green Just a Color? Environmentalism and Olfactory Discrimination
Six-Medicalization and Its Discontents
Conclusion
Appendix I: Survey of Olfactory Discrimination in the Workplace
Appendix II: U.S. Public Libraries with Body Odor Bans
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index