The Body : Critical Concepts in Sociology

ISBN-13: 9780415266628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 2888 str.

Andrew Blaikie

Opis

This collection offers a comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides a useful reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and a source for scholars working in the area. The central focus is on understanding sociology through the body; what is often described as re-reading sociology in a more corporeal light. This is an interdisciplinary process, drawing on history, feminism, cultural history, art history, anthropology, social psychology, philosophy, medical sociology and media and communications, as well as sociology.

Spis treści

I. Knowing Bodies
II. Sociology, Nature and the Body
III. Body History
IV. Living and Dying Bodies
V. 'Alternative' Bodies