Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138080119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 422 str.

MR Bryan S. Turner

Opis

In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. This collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field explores these issues across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, with a wide range of case studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: the Turn of the Body  Body, Self and Society  1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body  2. Pragmatism’s Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience to Somaesthetics  3. Norbert Elias and the Body  4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault  5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment  6. Feminist theory: Bodies, Science and Technology  7. Foucault’s Body  What is a Body?  8. Layers or Versions? Human Bodies and the Love of Bitterness  9. Phenomenology and the Body  10. Social Constructionism and the Body  11. From Embodied Regulations to Hybrid Ontologies: Questioning Archaeological Bodies  12. Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism  Religion and the Body  13. Relics of Faith: Fleshly Desires, Ascetic Disciplines and Devotional Affect in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement  14. The Body and the Veil  15. Recomposing Decimated Bodies  Medical Regimes and the Body  16. Death Signals Life: A Semiotics of the Corpse  17. Beyond the Anorexic Paradigm: Re-Thinking ‘Eating’ Disorders  18. Disability, Impairment and the Body  19. The Body, Social Inequality and Health  20. Health and the Embodiment of the Life Course  Gender, Sexualities and Race  21. Chinese Male Bodies: A Transnational Study of Masculinity and Sexuality  22. Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men’s Bodies: The Need for a Concept of Gex  23. Racialized Bodies  Technologies and Body Modification  24. Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint, as Commodity, as Commonplace  25. Modified Bodies: Texts, Projects and Process  26. Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy  27. Rejecting the Aging Body  28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and Illusio

O autorze

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York USA and the Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His publications include The Body & Society (Sage, 2008) and he edited The Routledge Handbook of Globalization Studies (2010).