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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... hand . So far as we can see , the resemblance between the right and left hands seem perfect . Yet , as we know , we use our hands quite differently , neglecting , avoiding , and even dishonoring the left hand , while preferring and Social ...
... hand . In this case , as with so many other sociological phenomena , the competing accounts are themselves social phenomena . Curiously enough , the sneaking suspicion that we are dealing with superstition and not science is on the ...
... hand , by shoring up the practice of family savings and family assistance , and against irresponsible patriarchy on ... hand in hand with state laws that under- mine patriarchal and familial authority over children : the liberalization ...