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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... administration and a population . Sexuality is not the most intractable element in power rela- tions , but rather one of those endowed with the greatest instrumentality : useful for the greatest number of maneuvers and capable of ...
... administration of consumption will decline , services being self - consuming and requiring little administration . But since services tend to be either labor - intensive or intellect - intensive , it is difficult to see how they assure ...
... administration of bureaucratized centers of professional care which weaken familized care even though it remains a residual necessity . However , we cannot continue to impose on women as quasi - natural carers nor presume upon their ...