Corporeality
eBook - PDF

Corporeality

The Body and Society

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Corporeality

The Body and Society

About this book

Regardless of how a person spends her or his day, in a classroom, in work or outside employment, whatever our thoughts, beliefs and experiences of life, all living is embodied. We are of and within our bodies. During the last thirty years, social scientists have increasingly turned their attention to the body as a site of both theoretical engagement and empirical exploration. Recently, public discourse has also become preoccupied with embodied debates: the 'obesity crisis' and the London 2012 Paralympics have located the body firmly in the realm of public interest. The new essays collected in Corporeality: The Body and Society demonstrate some of the unique advantages attainable through studying the body sociologically. Focusing in on a series of embodied fields related to lifestyle media, war, disability, drugs and mental health, the book re-states the fundamental importance of a body-centered approach in the social sciences. Work by established experts in the field sits side by side with new voices to provide an accessible and stimulating snap-shot of the role of the body in society in the early twenty-first century.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title pages
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Contributors
  9. Cassandra A. Ogden and Stephen Wakeman: Introduction - Corporeality: The body and society
  10. Jayne Raisborough: Chapter One -Transforming fat bodies: Lifestyle media and corporeal responsibility
  11. Elizabeth Ettorre: Chapter Two - Using women: Embodied deviance, pollution and reproductive regimes
  12. Stephen Wakeman: Chapter Three - For an embodied sociology of drug use: Mephedrone and "Corporeal Pleasure"
  13. Dan Goodley: Chapter Four - Why Critical disability studies?
  14. Cassandra A. Ogden: Chapter Five - Surveillance of the leak child: No-body's normal but that doesn't stop us trying
  15. Paul Higate: Chapter Six - Mercenary killer or embodied veteran? The case of Paul Slough and the Nisour Square Massacre
  16. Michael S. Drake: Chapter Seven - Commemorating fatalities of war and national identity in the twenty-first century
  17. Paul Taylor: Chapter Eight - Governing the body: The legal, administrative and discursive control of the psychiatric patient
  18. Index
  19. Back cover