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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... concerned with issues of sovereignty and kinship, emancipation and alienation. Between the 1960s and the 1970s we moved from idealizing our bodies to being horrified by them as our sense of the sources of empowerment shifted. I have ...
... concerned with detail (or data), it is in the first place out of respect for the phenomenological canniness of even the most uncanny practices. So I do not mean to overwhelm these observations in postmodern critical irony (O'Neill, 1995) ...
... concerned with how it is that in modern society we are devising a technology for rewriting the genetic code much as savage societies once rewrote the flesh – but in a different key, played first upon the body of desire: For capitalism ...
... concerned to rethink the 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 ...
... concerns of sociology, economics, and politics as these disciplines are generally understood. But to the extent this is so, much of what we ordinarily know and feel about our lives and the quality of our public life is ignored. In what ...
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 |