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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... sense of the sources of empowerment shifted. I have therefore argued for the institution of a civic ratio between public and private life, work, health and education which demand our collective and familied intelligence. Here ...
... sense do we understand the body that enters into our social life? It is sometimes thought that the body is a physical object like other objects that surround us. As such, our physical body can be bumped into, knocked over, crushed, and ...
... senses. In this view our bodies are the unwilling servants of the moral and intellectual order. Thus we need to discipline our bodies to achieve excellence, to enter heaven, or to endure the passivity of sitting in a lecture hall to ...
... sense no deeper bond among them. Rather, sociability rests upon our reciprocal experience and upon the vulnerability and openness to one another that arises from the kind of communicative life we enjoy as embodied beings. Our bodies ...
... senses that we first appreciate and evaluate others, immediately shaping our own positive, pleasurable, and trusting responses, or else our negative, fearful, and avoiding reactions. What we see, hear, and feel of other persons is the ...
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 |