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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... 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 therefore argued ...
... issues here have become ever more urgent since the 1980s and 1990s with the development of the bio-state/market complex with which I close the book but not the continuing argument which will likely refigure all our relationships. We may ...
... issues in the complex civic relation between persons, nature, and social institutions may well be approached through our unavoidable interest in the human body. We shall see in some detail how the human body is an intelligent and ...
... issues of social order, conflict, and change? Even if there were anything to be learned, how would it be of more than passing interest? Surely science is in pursuit of order, regularity and generalizations that are independent of bodily ...
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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 |