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This volume presents an exploration of the role of embodied cognition in creating personal, imaginative renditions of hair, that also distally relate to the symbolic significance of the fairytale character Rapunzel's hair (in terms of physical life, romantic life, spiritual life, and psychic life, respectively). Integral to this relation, is the author's idea of ""fancifold"", which is a quality or state of the imagination that can produce unique neuropsychological elements of enchantment and d...

Cognition (Psychology) --- Philosophy of mind --- Subjectivity --- Subjectivism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects.

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What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness? Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations-the blind and the transgendered-Blind to Sameness answers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Both groups speak from unique perspectives that magnify the social construction of dominant visual conceptions of sex, allowing Friedman to examine the visual construction of the sexed body and highlighting the processes of social perception underlying our everyday experience of male and female bodies. The result is a notable contribution to the sociologies of gender, culture, and cognition that will revolutionize the way we think about sex.

Sex differences (Psychology) --- Sex differences --- Sex recognition (Zoology) --- Body image --- Perception --- Social perception. --- Transgender people --- Blind --- Social aspects. --- social construct, culture, cultural studies, male and female, bodies, sex, sexual relations, masculinity, femininity, body type, sociology, criminal justice, boundaries, blind, transgender, biology, visual perception, sexed, gender, cognition, psychology, interviews, selective attention, cognitive flexibility, genitals, genes, difference, filter, narratives, understanding, expectations, projection, sameness, image.