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 |
From inside the book
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... sense of institutional and role requirements in order to make sense of the behavior around us and what it requires on our part . In particular , we are now much more aware of the sexual contract ( Pateman , 1988 ; 1989 ) which codes ...
... Sense the Tongue . North stood The labyrinthine Ear . Circumscribing & Circumcising the excrementitious Musk & Covering into Vacuum evaporating revealing the lineaments of Man Driving outward the Body of Death in an Eternal Death ...
... sense of our own good and evil . Unlike the Cross or the Star of David , the photos and magazine sketches that trace ... sense is lost in sensation and meaning is consumed by presentation . The paradox of the speechlessness of the age of ...