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 |
From inside the book
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... becoming-human. It never loses sight of the interaction between our ways of thinking bodies through society and thinking/doing society through bodies (O'Neill, 2002a). It therefore never privileges patriarchal, feminist or racialized ...
... become ever more urgent since the 1980s and 1990s with the development of the bio-state/market complex with which I ... becomes more pronounced with the discovery of the immune body/self, the agent of political conflict, defending itself ...
... become a kind of prosthetic god. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but these organs have not grown on him and they still give him trouble at times' (Freud, 1962: 38–9). In the following chapters, I stand ...
... become clear, however, that in the process people have lost the power to give a civic shape to human institutions, which I think we must revive if we are to defend ourselves against the equal excesses of subjective and subjectless ...
... become aware of the distinction between its experience of its own body and the other person's experience of it as a body (O'Neill, 1989). Thus from infancy we acquire the ability to mirror our intentions in the facial and linguistic ...
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 |