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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... McDonald's is a more appropriate setting for it than Maxim's , as we shall show later . Human beings have to eat , to be sure . But to receive social and moral approval , they must eat like their own kind - like members of their own ...
... McDonald's consumer is pitted from the moment s / he leaves the counter against food that is already beginning to turn cold and to decompose ( nor can it be reheated ) . A decision must be made to swallow fast facilitated by meat and ...
... McDonald's is happy to declare itself a community agent . Because Americans are not sure how much change they can stand , McDonald's is happy to reassure Americans that nothing changes at McDonald's because it is timelessly devoted to ...