Contents -- Introduction: Theorizing the Body/Self in Global Capitalism -- 1 The Illness of Global Capitalism: Female Employees on "Sick Leave" and the Social Meaning of Pain -- 2 The Problematics of Democratic Action within Disciplinary Liberalism: The Norplant Case and the Postmodern Body -- 3 Genocide or Assimilation: Discourses of Women's Bodies, Health, and Nation in Guatemala -- 4 The Ludic Body: Ritual, Desire, and Cultural Identity in the American Super Bowl and the Carnival of Rio -- 5 From Body Politics to Body Shops: Power, Subjectivity, and the Body in an Era of Global Capitalism -- 6 Reinventing the Liberal Self: Talk Shows as Moral Discourse -- 7 Reflections in an Unblinking Eye: Negotiating the Representation of Identities in the Production of a Documentary -- 8 From Subject to Citizen to Consumer: Embodiment and the Mediation of Hegemony -- 9 Narration and Postmodern Mediations of Western Selfhood -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.