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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... body. We shall see in some detail how the human body is an intelligent and critical resource in the civic production of ... communicative bodily presence to which we cannot be indifferent, to which we are as sensible in others as in ...
... body is, morally speaking, more than a simple object for biological study or ... body as paradigmatic of what persons are required to know about bodily conduct ... communicative body whose upright posture and audiovisual articulation open ...
... body (Mauss, 1973). It is even more difficult to understand how we can ... body, modern political economy exercises power over it by opening up, so to speak ... communicative body to the sexual body is a historical process that distorts ...
... communicative body that is the moral basis of all society and of the practice of any social science. We cannot escape life among others. Our bodies commit us from the first moment of life to the company of those who have grown up and ...
... body. It is moreover, a communicative body and the 'word' is the key to everything in the world's body. The Dogon view of the world is anthropomorphic; at every level it reflects the imagery of the gendered body – its minerals and ...
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 |