ABSTRACT
Chapter Six examines how historical bodies learn to value, perform, and police expected ways of displaying, moving, and disciplining bodies. Embodied literacies are illustrated through fashion practices in a makeover episode on lifestyle television to understand how its exaggerated critique and explicit lessons make visible the usually tacit learning of social practices and expectations for belonging. The methods focus for this chapter features nexus analysis, using micro- and macro-analysis of action histories and trajectories to track how embodied expectations shape participation. The analysis of embodied literacies shows how practices are expected, enforced, and wielded through (re)mediation of bodies, illustrated with a television makeover episode and school lessons on beginning writing.
