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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... bodily harms , and even those who are merely clumsy risk at least embarrassment , if not moral condemnation . Thus , even the physical body is , morally speaking , more than a simple object for biological study or medical practice and ...
... bodily parts , as a resource for the incessant eye - work ( O'Neill , 1975 ) whereby we make the way people appear constituent features of social reality . Thus , a good deal of the information we need in order to be properly oriented ...
... bodily ties between individuals and institutions and because they help us to understand the relative claims of psychological and sociological analysis with respect to bodily conduct that it is otherwise tempting to consider wholly ...