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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... celebrate the social sciences that we were revisioning through continental phenomenology, hermeneutics and critical theory (O'Neill, 1974; 1989). At the same time I thought it necessary to preserve the grand perspectives of the ...
... celebration. The progress of human knowledge seems to require the abandonment of an anthropocentric or human-centered world-view – a proposition I do not seriously challenge. It has become clear, however, that in the process people have ...
... celebrate our sheer sociability whenever we dress, adorn our necks, arms, wrists, and eyes, paint our cheeks and lips, or exchange smiles, kisses, and handshakes. Thus, whenever our bodies are unwell, we generally beg off parties and ...
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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 |