Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent
contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was
first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and
was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian
Sociology and Anthropology Association). A path breaking book, it
offered a framework for the growing field of the sociology of the body
and opened up ′the body′ for sociological research. This new
edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University
Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to address
today′s issues of the body in modern life, community and politics.
John O′Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are
being re-shaped and re-figured and how the embodied figures of the
polity, economy and society represent the contested notions of
identity, desire, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon those
cultural practices through which we map our macro-micro worlds: ·
articulating a cosmology · a body politic · a productivensumptive
economy · a bio-technological frontier of human design and
transplantation
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ISBN
9781847871534
Publisert
2019
Utgave
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Vendor
Sage Publications Ltd (UK)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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