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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... tion or else quickly disposed of with a little knowledge of brain science . The latter settles the issue in the functional asymmetry of the brain , the domi- nance of the left side of the brain being responsible for the dominance of the ...
... tion as well as a duty of consumption . Hence milk and blood society - and water , air , ' green ' – are garnishes of the sacred . ' Sacred ' means not appro- priable ( in mimetic rivalry ) because life ought not to be opposed to itself ...
... tion , the law , the police , science , sexuality , women and children will all be cast as good / bad figures . We will similarly split our conservatism / liberalism , collectivism and individualism , ourselves and our robots , opposing ...