Five Bodies: Re-figuring RelationshipsFive 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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... 7616 4309 9 Library of Congress control number available Typeset by C&M Digital (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead Marius and Joan Contents List of Figures Preface Introduction 1.
Re-figuring Relationships John O′Neill. Marius and Joan Contents List of Figures Preface Introduction 1 The World's Body.
... 3 The Body Politic 4 Consumer Bodies 5 Medical Bodies 6 Conclusion: The Future Shape of Human Beings Bibliography Index ix xi 1 9 22 37 54 66 79 89 95 List of Figures 1.1 Encyclopedic Man 2.1 Deciphering a meal Contents.
Re-figuring Relationships John O′Neill. List of Figures 1.1 Encyclopedic Man 2.1 Deciphering a meal 2.2 Eating America 3.1 Christ figure 5.1 Spare-part man 5.2 Mapping AID and AID/S 6.1 Millennial Madonna 17 27 35 40 72 76 82 Preface In the ...
... figure of prosthetic 'man' in Civilization and its Discontents (1962). The immediate context of my own body studies was the body politics of the 1960s experienced from the Canadian border of North America. Here events appeared both to ...
Contents
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Social Bodies | 22 |
The Body Politic | 37 |
Consumer Bodies | 54 |
Medical Bodies | 66 |
Conclusion The Future Shape of Human Beings | 79 |
Bibliography | 89 |
Index | 95 |