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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... consumerism , to a promise of passive health and happi- ness . The ordinary person , who is each of us most of the time , needs to see that modern society and its future technologies of the mind , body and political economy have not ...
... consumerism . If there is any central covenant in such a family , it centers upon a mutual regard for the television wherein such arrangements are commercially celebrated ( O'Neill , 2002a ) . What is seen is the war of each against all ...
... consumerism 49-50 , 63-4 consumerized society 49 consumption , work of 61-2 Cooley , Charles Horton 7 cosmography 9 cosmology xi , 14-16 cyborgs 16 , 80-2 death 54-5 , 74 , 86-8 depoliticization 44 dirt 24 see also animals DNA 71 , 83 ...