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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... consumption over public consumption ( except where the latter , for this very reason , is stigmatized as poor relief or welfare benefits even when declared a citizen's right ) unless we adopt a semiologi- cal approach to commodity ...
... consumption . Looked at in this way , the strat- ification system , so far from being an evil , acts as a moral screen , a device for representing the stages in the good life rather than any obstacle to its pursuit . - Marx argued that ...
... consumption imperative and earning a wage . Whether or not he sees this problem , Galbraith in effect moves his argument for the emancipation of women to the thesis that as the economy shifts from the secondary to tertiary stages , i.e. ...