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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... nature . In either case , artifacts intervene , whether as models or miniaturizations , in which the part / whole structures of the object are experimented with in a synthesis of natural and social events . And in terms of another ...
... nature . Yet whenever the excesses of this domination of nature are observed , as they are today , it becomes natural once again to remind ourselves of our kinship with the world's body - and thereby of our need to respect what is left ...
... nature of the human mind leads it to attribute its own nature to the effect , and because in that state their nature was that of men all of robust bodily strength , who expressed their very violent passions by shouting and grumbling ...