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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... human beings cannot do without the practice of anthropomorphism . If they were to refrain from it entirely , the world would assume a character more alien than that of any deity . Therefore anthropomorphism is an essential human ...
... human body . The zodiacal and planetary systems pair anatomy and cosmography to give us forecast or free play according to our fantasy : The planetary system is joined with the human body not astronomically but by the metamorphosis of ...
... body politic : From time to time the imagery of the human body is again made sharp to reassert the human shape of human beings where they are threatened by social and political forces directed at administering men and women as things or ...