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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... organs he is truly magnificent ; but these organs have not grown on him and they still give him trouble at times ' ( Freud , 1962 : 38–9 ) . In the following chapters , I stand at some distance from Freud's concep- tion of the infantile ...
... organs of the Spirit of water comparable to human organs , with the addition of the gizzard because the Spirit moves as fast as a bird . The organs were displayed in the following order : stomach , gizzard , heart , small liver , spleen ...
... organs which have been achieved ( whole eye ) or are often talked about ( limbs from other bodies , gonads ) because of severe technical or ethical difficulties . Reproduced from Gerald Leach , The Biocrats ( London : Jonathan Cape ...