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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... institution of anthropomorphosis. In Five Bodies those cultural practices through which we map our macro–micro worlds, articulating a cosmology, a body politic, a commensal society, a productive/consumptive economy and a bio ...
... institutions. It is a conceit of logicians that we could think otherwise. Yet, how dare I reinvent anthropomorphism? Even if I am not afraid of fallacy, oughtn't I to respect intellectual fashion? We do not belong in our own cre– any ...
... institutions rethink the body (Mauss, 1973). It is even more difficult to understand how we can rethink institutions with our bodies. But this is what we shall be doing in this book. Michel Foucault has brought to our attention the ...
... institutional and role requirements in order to make sense of the behavior around us and what it requires on our part. In particular, we are now much more aware of the sexual contract (Pateman, 1988; 1989) which codes families within ...
... institutions, or our environment. The abstraction of modern experience is based upon the removal of the human shape in favor of the measured – number, line, sign, code, index. Everywhere anthropomorphism, the creative force in the civic ...
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 |