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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... shift becomes more pronounced with the discovery of the immune body / self , the agent of political conflict , defend- ing itself from outside attacks or infections . The neural and immune body selves both suffered severe setbacks with ...
... shift from raising pigs , sheep , goats , and cattle primarily for meat and to put more land under the plough for wheat , barley and other plant crops , which have roughly ten times greater calorie return than the animal sources gained ...
... shift in terminology made it easier for the pope to be the political head of the church's secular body politic than of the Eucharistic body of the church . By the same token , the terminology was in place for the juridi- cal ...