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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... Society caters for the resurgence of interest in culture within contemporary social science and the humanities ... Society book series, the journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society, and related conference, seminar and ...
... societies to Judeo-Christian society, into the industrialized orders of work, consumption, life and death that characterize modernity and its aftermath (Turner, 1984; Shilling, 1993). Five Bodies avoids any essentialist position on the ...
... society – with its potential for patriarchal sexism and racism. It is also the model for 'Encyclopedic Man' (Figure 1.1). The neural body had to learn to adapt its monarchical bias to a constitutional state. This shift becomes more ...
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 |