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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... corporate doctrine of the Roman church elaborated in Carolingian times from sources in Saint Paul ( Robinson , 1952 ) . Roughly what happened is that the mystical body of Christ ( the Eucharist ) and the body of Christ ( the church and ...
... corporate culture is that it panders to the libidi- nal body , titillating and ravishing its sensibilities , while at the same time it standardizes and packages libidinal responses to its products ( O'Neill , 2002b ) . In North America ...
... corporate debunking of the patriarchy coincided with a general devaluation of all forms of self direction . In hailing the modern woman as a ' home manager ' and in celebrating the child as the conscience of the new age , corporate ...