Dealing with the topic of the body, this book illustrates the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life, by linking contemporary theory to the body through a series of case studies. These case studies range across a variety of cultural settings, such as film, theatre, dance and sport.
Dealing with the topic of the body, this book illustrates the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life, by linking...
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting, yet situated character of the body in society. In turn, these corporeal theories have implications for social relations in an era of new technologies and global market economies.
The Body and Everyday Life offers a lively and comprehensive introduction to the study of the body. It...
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and me...
This text collects: all that Helen Thomas wrote about the poet Edward Thomas; the volumes As It Was and World Without End; her letters to Edward; and separate memoirs of her meetings with W.H. Davies, D.H. Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost and W.H. Hudson.
This text collects: all that Helen Thomas wrote about the poet Edward Thomas; the volumes As It Was and World Without End; her letters to Edward; and ...
This is the first book in English on the architectural work of the influential French architect, urban planner, teacher, and writer Fernand Pouillon (1912-86). Among the essays are ones from architectural critic and historian Jacques Lucan offering a rich analysis of Pouillon's postwar urbanism and its critique of mainstream modernism and Adam Caruso delving into Pouillon's use of materials. The book also features photographs of Pouillon's key projects.
This is the first book in English on the architectural work of the influential French architect, urban planner, teacher, and writer Fernand Pouillon (...
This is the first book in English to focus on the work of the Italian architects Mario Asnago (1896-1981) and Claudio Vender (1904-86), whose firm, Asnago Vender, transformed midcentury Milan. At the end of World War II, Milan was architecturally stagnant, with few recent constructions of interest to complement its historic core. Soon, however, Milan was the center of a number of remarkably creative architectural visions--not least of them that of Asnago Vender. Through their many building commissions, to which they brought a clean, modernist aesthetic, they helped to create the vibrant,...
This is the first book in English to focus on the work of the Italian architects Mario Asnago (1896-1981) and Claudio Vender (1904-86), whose firm, As...
On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood - stabbed multiple times while Suzanne's sixteen-month-old baby slept in his cot. Although police established a list of more than 100 'persons of interest', the case became one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in Melbourne. Journalist Helen Thomas was a cub reporter at The Age when the murders were committed and saw how deeply they affected the city. Now, forty-two years on, she has re-examined the cold case - chasing down new leads and talking to members...
On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood - stabbed multiple...
