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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... behavior? Generally speaking, sociology is the study of the rules and normative behavior that proceed from people's beliefs and not from their bodily chemistry or physiology. Therefore, it will be said, society is in our minds, not in ...
... behavior; our bodies are the very flesh of society. Charles Horton Cooley (1964) spoke of this permeable ground in nearly bodily terms when he drew the attention of sociologists and psychologists to the notion of the looking glass self ...
... behavior around us and what it requires on our part. In particular, we are now much more aware of the sexual contract (Pateman, 1988; 1989) which codes families within patriarchal society (Turner, 1984) and restricts women's citizenship ...
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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 |