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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... concerned with detail ( or data ) , it is in the first place out of respect for the phenomenological canniness of even the most uncanny practices . So I do not mean to over- whelm these observations in postmodern critical irony ( O ...
... concern with bodily dirt . Sometimes it is bodily parts , or bodily functions , or whole bodies , or classes of ... concerns are not nearly so physical as moral : - If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt ...
Re-figuring Relationships John O'Neill. terms of peculiarly Israelite concerns with taxonomy and religious identity ... concerned with people's relation to their food . It might be thought that such a relation is simply bioeconomic ...