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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... future is not something we can allow to be thrust upon us like some ' new ' detergent . The elitist visionaries of future technology reduce the human future to an element in our general culture of passive consumerism , to a promise of ...
... future of mankind ) . It is as easy as it is dangerous to beguile ourselves with the end- less novelties of a future that will be produced without us . Everywhere we turn , there are proposals to redesign life , the mind , emotions ...
... future shaping of human beings , they must take their stand on the alpha and omega questions . They must , in other words , be concerned with the future shaping of life and death- and therefore of the future of kinship : For the ...