http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/11/gender-politics-and-textbook-illustrations-nsfw/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 07:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/11/gender-politics-and-textbook-illustrations-nsfw/comment-page-1/#comment-561427 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:51:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50966#comment-561427 Is the link to the cast of Glee supposed to be the one linked to for the “have not generally received as many messages”? It doesn’t seem to fit.

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/11/gender-politics-and-textbook-illustrations-nsfw/comment-page-1/#comment-560646 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:32:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50966#comment-560646 Interesting! Not at all a reflection of my recent med school anatomy books, btw (though still, you get some funny looks when reading about the breast or gyn in a coffeeshop). Fairly irrelevant anecdote, I attended med school in the same town where I did undergrad. I signed up for a 3 session “just for fun” drawing course in med school which was supposed to help understand underlying muscle anatomy via drawing a male subject in his underwear. In my unergrad, I took a drawing class and we used the same subject nude.

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/11/gender-politics-and-textbook-illustrations-nsfw/comment-page-1/#comment-560621 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:50:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50966#comment-560621 I’m not sure if it was this site or the Escher Girls blog that had a great post on gendered posing in anatomy textbooks. Even while cut off at the head and illustrated for scientific purposes, the male stance was neutral and the female stance (when shown at all) had a hand on a jutting hip. 

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