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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... experience those aspects of the body I have dif- ferentiated as the physical body and the communicative body except ... experiences of birth , death , pain , pleasure , hunger , fear , beauty , and ugliness . How , then , are we to ...
... experience of its own body and the other person's experience of it as a body ( O'Neill , 1989 ) . Thus from infancy we acquire the ability to mirror our intentions in the facial and linguistic expressions of our mother as the basis for ...
... experience . Desire and experience : the principal dimensions of the consumer's relationship with his / her environment . And the field is infinite ; it consists of the sum of all the possibilities that may be sampled . Satisfied from ...