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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... 3 The Body Politic 4 Consumer Bodies 5 Medical Bodies 6 Conclusion: The Future Shape of Human Beings Bibliography Index ix xi 1 9 22 37 54 66 79 89 95 List of Figures 1.1 Encyclopedic Man 2.1 Deciphering a meal Contents.
... shape to human institutions, which I think we must revive if we are to defend ourselves against the equal excesses of subjective and subjectless science. Moreover, I believe that the vital issues in the complex civic relation between ...
... shape to a world that is no longer our own. Such, at any rate, is the complaint of many artists and social scientists who speak of our world alienation or, as I see it, a process of negative anthropomorphism. We are no longer reflected ...
... shape of a woman's body. The anthill is the sexual organ of the world's body and its clitoris is a termite hill. Being lonely Amma desired the world's body. The termite hill resisted Amma's approaches, and so Amma cut it down. From this ...
... shape of anthills, making rooms with connecting passages, and they began to store food and to mold great teeth of clay around the entrances to their dwellings, like the teeth of the earth's womb: The ant at the same time revealed 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 |