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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... shape of a woven basket , with a circular top and square base in which was carried the earth and clay from which the Word was built . This shape was inverted , how- ever , giving the Granary of Pure Earth a circular bottom representing ...
Re-figuring Relationships John O'Neill. 6 Conclusion The Future Shape of Human Beings Our situation , as we have considered it in the light of our potential for revising the very status of life , requires us to think ... Shape of Human ...
... shape of fam- ilied society : And because in such a case the 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 ...