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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... kind of communicative life we enjoy as embodied beings . - Our bodies , then , are the fine instruments of both the smaller and the larger society in which we live . Human dexterity is such that we are capa- ble of an infinitely wide ...
... kind ; Every raven after its kind ; And the ostrich , and the night hawk , and the sea gull , and the hawk after its kind ; And the white owl , and the cormorant , and the horned owl , And the swan , and the pelican , and the carrion ...
... kind of society we wish to engineer . It is here that our imagination is more likely to fail us . At the present time , conven- tional medicine expends incredibly fine skills on the repair of bodies that our society with its present ...