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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... stand. I did so by making a forthright statement on the body as an institution of anthropomorphosis. In Five Bodies those cultural practices through which we map our macro–micro worlds, articulating a cosmology, a body politic, a ...
... stand at some distance from Freud's conception of the infantile nature of the first humans and their gods, and so I am less inclined to abuse them with the faults of our modern technological fixation. Rather, I am concerned to rethink ...
... stand against antihumanism and, in particular, against any fashionable credo of defamilization, whose aim is to strengthen the market as the ultimate matrix of human life. I reject this last phase of neo-individualism. Rather, I think ...
... stands as our first world, the measure of all our other worldly engagements. What Cooley called the 'looking glass self' is actually part of the complex acquisition of what is now called the body image, which involves passing through a ...
... standing, and the like (Bourdieu, 1977). It is in this light that we can understand that the elaborate cosmetic and grooming practices in which persons of all sorts are involved for a considerable amount of the day, at enormous cost and ...
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 |