Visual Regimes of Discipline in U.S. Higher Education

Bodies in the Frame
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-11205-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

This book employs an intersectional feminist lens to examine how U.S. national, social, and cultural ideologies surrounding health and intelligence have been shaped and sustained through racist, gendered, and ableist scientific practices and photographic technologies. Focusing on posture photography programs implemented at women’s colleges throughout the 20th century, the chapters trace the entanglements of these visual regimes with the eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through a series of case studies and creative interventions, the authors analyze how these photographic practices functioned as tools of bodily discipline and normative regulation. They also detail their own use of technology, photography, and the arts to reimagine and recreate posture portraits—challenging narratives of pathology and shame, and honoring bodies historically marked as Other.

This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender and Women’s Studies, Studies of Race and Ethnicity, Disability Studies, Visual and Performance Studies, Digital Humanities, Sociology, History, and Technology Studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baldwin, Andrea N.

Lee, Sangyoon

Henderson, Heidi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Seeing Otherwise: A Narrative of Discovery, Discipline, and Reimagination.- Part I: Telling and Theorizing.- Citizenship, Normalcy, and the Eugenic Imagination.- The University as Eugenic Laboratory.- Bodies in the Frame: Capturing the Student Body in the Name of Science and Order.- Bodies Remember: The Affective Life of Posture Photography.- Part II: Recreating and Refusing.- Recreating the Posture Portraits: Design, Refusal, and Technological Intervention.- Moving Bodies: Performance, Improvisation, and Refusal.- Conclusion: Toward a Counter-Archive of Care.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea N. Baldwin  is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah, USA.  

Sangyoon Lee is a media artist and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Connecticut College, USA.

Heidi Henderson  is a choreographer and Professor of Dance at Connecticut College, USA.