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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... representing the Sun , and a square top representing the Sky with a circular opening to represent the Moon . Each of the four sides was cut into by ten steps , the tread of each being female and the riser male . Each of the four sides ...
... represents a common legacy that enables each one in the name of others . So long as we continue to be birthed and ... represent a historical - ethical development of anthropomorphosis and also permit us to identify contradictions or ...
... represented in a characteristic institution - the family , the economy , the person and the commons - each is in turn ... represent a challenge to all modes of scientistic , social , and political knowledge . But even now we can envisage ...