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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... Society caters for the resurgence of interest in culture within contemporary social science and the humanities ... Society book series , the journals Theory , Culture & Society and Body & Society , and related conference , seminar and ...
... society and it was their place in society which determined their place in nature . ( Durkheim and Mauss , 1963 : 82-3 ) Thus human beings think nature and society with their bodies . That is to say they first think the world and society ...
... society ; its collection and distribution articulates the anonymous love of that society's members toward their strangers . The circulation of blood is , therefore , socially speaking just as vital to the life of the ethical community ...