Body politics is a research area that examines how power, social norms, and cultural ideologies shape and influence the way individual bodies are perceived, treated, and regulated within society. This field of study explores issues related to beauty standards, gender norms, representations of race and ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and health disparities. Body politics also examines how individuals and groups resist and challenge dominant societal narratives about bodies through activism, art, and cultural productions. This research area highlights the ways in which bodies are sites of social and political contestation, and how they are central to understanding broader structures of power and inequality.