Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1: The World's Body; 2: Social Bodies; 3: The Body Politic; 4: Consumer Bodies; 5: Medical Bodies; 6: Conclusion; The Future Shape of Human Beings; Bibliography; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. This new edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to examine 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.
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Title
Five bodies.
International Standard Book Number
9780761943082
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Anthropomorphism.
Human body-- Social aspects.
Human body-- Symbolic aspects.
Anthropomorphisme.
Corps humain-- Aspect social.
Corps humain-- Aspect symbolique.
Anthropomorphism.
Belichaming.
Human body-- Social aspects.
Human body-- Symbolic aspects.
Menselijk lichaam.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.