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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... Body 2 Social Bodies 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 ...
... body as an institution of anthropomorphosis. In Five Bodies those cultural practices through which we map our macro–micro worlds, articulating a cosmology, a body politic, a commensal society, a productive/consumptive economy and a bio ...
... body politic that derives from each knowledge-base (Gilbert, 1995: 571): 1 the neural body (text) and politics as culture/law (context); 2 the genetic body (text) and politics of ethnicity/race (context); 3 the immune body (text) and ...
... body, its family, the body politic, the economy and nature in order to exercise a form of domination over the world and itself that threatens to be the last of all metamorphoses. At the same time there are indications that, despite our ...
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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 |