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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... stand before a beast to lie down thereto : it is confusion . ( Lev . 18 : 22-3 ) Holiness , then , consists in preserving the classes of Genesis , and it is this injunction that is basic to the laws on clean and unclean meats . To ...
... stand on a frontier where the origins and ends of life converge , making us more of a question for ourselves than ever before . If today's humanists are to have any say in the future shaping of human beings , they must take their stand ...
... stand in a necessary historical line from the first human creatures whose awkward bodies ruled them as the generative source of our metaphors , relationships , concepts , and gener- alizations . This is the historical ground of common ...