A comparative analysis of body politics, selfhood, and the pursuit of consumer-based agencyThin body, white skin, and big eyes.

"Ways that understandings of bodies, and the politics ascribed to them, are culturally produced. It contributes to current debates on methodology in anthropology, social life in China, bodily politics, and the emergence of a global middle class. Its accessible writing style will be suitable for a wide audience across multiple fields--including anthropology, women's studies, and East Asian studies--and appropriate for classroom use at both the undergraduate and graduate level"--