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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... Man 2.1 Deciphering a meal 2.2 Eating America 3.1 Christ figure 5.1 Spare - part man 5.2 Mapping AID and AID / S 6.1 Millennial Madonna 17 27 35 40 72 76 2o 82 Preface In the 1980s I put forward a framework for List of Figures.
... figures of Christ's body ( Figure 3.1 ) , which simultaneously contains the tree of life , abstracting and protecting the intimacy of its members . Here , through these two intimate figures , the circle and the tree , we enter the ...
... Figure 3.1 Christ figure T W R 0 CO 01 tu e po Ca SC Ou One of the most remarkable developments in the imagery of the body politic occurred in the fusion of certain doctrines of high medieval political theology with the legal fiction of ...