The opening chapters suggest that transitions in welfare capitalism can be understood in terms of shifts in dominant 'corporeal' discourses. The body as a focus for power and resistance in differing welfare regimes is further explored in individual contributions on health and social care, bodily metaphors in social policy and the relationship between animal and human welfare. In highlighting the significance of the body in social policy, the book opens up a novel, and potentially rich, vein of academic enquiry.
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Social Policy and the Body
Transitions in Corporeal Discourse
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Social Policy and the Body
Transitions in Corporeal Discourse
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: Towards an Embodied Account of Welfare
- 1 Welfare and Bodily Order: Theorizing Transitions in Corporeal Discourse
- 2 The Care of the Body
- 3 The 'Gift' of Body Organs
- 4 Bodies and Dualism
- 5 Bodily Metaphors and Welfare Regimes
- 6 Body–Mind Expertise: Notes on the Polarization of Health Care Discourse
- 7 Labouring Bodies: Mothers and Maternity Policy
- 8 Disciplinary Interventions and Resistances around 'Safer Sex'
- 9 The Equality of Bodies: Animal Exploitation and Human Welfare
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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