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9780803984134

The Body Social Process and Cultural Theory

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803984134

  • ISBN10:

    0803984138

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-02-01
  • Publisher: Sage Publications

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This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of the body in sources ranging from the work of Nietzsche to contemporary feminist theory. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies. These range from the expression of the emotions, romantic love, dietary practice, consumer culture, fitness and beauty, to media images of women and sexuality.This wide-ranging book draws in part on papers published in Theory,

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Preface viii
Recent Developments in the Theory of the body
1(35)
Bryan S. Turner
For a Sociology of the Body: an Analytical Review
36(67)
Arthur W. Frank
On Human Beings and their Emotions: a Process Sociological Essay
103(23)
Norbert Elias
On the Civilizing of Appetite
126(31)
Stephen Mennell
The Discourse of Diet
157(13)
Bryan S. Turner
The Body in Consumer Culture
170(27)
Mike Featherstone
The Midlifestyle of `George and Lynne': Notes on a Popular Strip
197(12)
Mike Featherstone
Mike Hepworth
Martial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education: the Case of Aikido
209(16)
Donald N. Levine
Bio-politics and Social Policy: Foucault's Account of Welfare
225(31)
Martin Hewitt
Genealogy and the Body: Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche
256(25)
Scott Lash
The Art of the Body in the Discourse of Postmodernity
281(16)
Roy Boyne
Love's Labour Lost? A Sociological View
297(28)
Margareta Bertilsson
Biographical Boundaries: Sociology and Marilyn Monroe
325(14)
Graham McCann
Carmen - or The Invention of a New Feminine Myth
339(32)
Dick Pels
Aya Crebas
The Mask of Ageing and the Postmodern Life Course
371(19)
Mike Featherstone
Mike Hepworth
Sociological Discourse and the Body
390(15)
J.M. Berthelot
Index 405

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