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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... civic ratio between public and private life, work, health and education which demand our collective and familied intelligence. Here, especially, I call for a civic resistance to the marketization and reductive.
... civic cosmos. Here we do not rule out contingency and conflict but constitute a civic arena in which we engage contested ideas and practices. My perspective on embodied society is achieved through an historical and structural approach ...
... civic legacy bequeathed to us in the sociopoetics of the first humans whose families and gods have survived most of the history of our own inhumanity and are still alive in the most ordinary places of mankind. If we have anything to ...
... civic shaping of human beings and of their civil and divine institutions. It is a conceit of logicians that we could ... civic shape to human institutions, which I think we must revive if we are to defend ourselves against the equal ...
... civic society strongly sanctions the protection of bodies. Those who inflict deliberate injury upon others risk incarceration and other bodily harms, and even those who are merely clumsy risk at least embarrassment, if not moral ...
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 |