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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... industrial , legal , and medical technology and a vari- ety of neo - individualist ideologies that seek to reshape our notions of men , women , and children , from familied beings into beings whose rights and duties are defined through ...
... Industrial Primitive Modern Society Figure 5.2 Mapping AID and AIDS Horror Autotoxicus is not , we may mark the colonization of milk societies through such prosthetic devices as bottle - feeding . The power of modern industrial society ...
... industrial contamina- tion that destroys the capacity of nature to become a culture . Hitherto , the function of myth was to reveal the dialectic of reciprocity between society and nature , between cleanness and dirt , civil and savage ...