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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... celebrate a meal it has not cooked , a meal about which nothing need be said that has not already been said and that ... celebrates itself as a com- mensal order , it must eat itself - contradictions and all ( Figure 2.2 ) . The ...
... celebrated ( O'Neill , 2002a ) . What is seen is the war of each against all ; mothers and fathers stupified by ... celebrating the child as the conscience of the new age , corporate ideologues asserted that each was expected to devote a ...
... celebrate their future the new foundlings must attend the spectacle of the past's reanimation - the new Easter of the dino - egg fertilized by the marriage of science and commerce . JP is the Bethlehem of bioscientism and a renewed ...