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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... give a civic shape to human institutions , which I think we must revive if we are to defend ourselves against the equal excesses of subjective and subjectless science . Moreover , I believe that the vital issues in the complex civic ...
... give ourselves an extra special wash and brush for special occasions for dates , interviews , funerals , or our own weddings . We are as careful to avoid our own dirt , to remove it from sight , as we are to avoid the dirt of others ...
... give and take a little indigestion , unless one is quite young . The organized informality of McDonald's is particularly important since it pre - empts criticism while nevertheless invoking it as suggestions for improved service . As in ...