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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... women of the world testify. If the old men who command greed and destruction do not awaken from their extraterrestrial fantasies, we shall not be lucky enough even to leave behind us any marked grave and certainly no child of our ...
... women, young people and old people, parents and offspring, teachers and students, priests and laity, an administration and a population. Sexuality is not the most intractable element in power relations, but rather one of those endowed ...
... women's citizenship. Thus there has been a considerable revision of political economy of gender, of intra-family, marital and parental relationships that has considerably expanded our earlier grasp of body politics. 1 The World's Body ...
... 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 disorderly ...
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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 |