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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... gender politics. I hope to have cut into the issues in a way that preserves the humanist ideal of making our place in a civic cosmos. Here we do not rule out contingency and conflict but constitute a civic arena in which we engage ...
... gender, marital status, sexual availability, social standing, and the like (Bourdieu, 1977). It is in this light that we can understand that the elaborate cosmetic and grooming practices in which persons of all sorts are involved for a ...
... gender and kinship and replication, which, far from being unscientific or irrational, was the very foundation on which later, abstract and rationalized modes of categorization could be developed in both the human and the natural ...
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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 |