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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Re-figuring Relationships John O′Neill. Marius and Joan Contents List of Figures Preface Introduction 1 The World's Body.
... World's Body 2 Social Bodies 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 ...
... world we have chosen to create for ourselves – the 'man-made' world. There is no escaping our romance with the machine we have created in order to recreate ourselves. Nothing praises our divinity like our machines; nothing else renders ...
... human body to reconstitute its family, its political economy and its biotechnologies. Such a task cannot be indifferent to us, as the continuing protests from the young men and women of the world testify. If the old men who command ...
... world would assume a character more alien than that of any deity. Therefore anthropomorphism is an essential human ... body. We shall see in some detail how the human body is an intelligent and critical resource in the civic production ...
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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 |