Body Matters: Essays On The Sociology Of The Body

by Scott,Sue; Scott,Sue

• ISBN13: 9781850009436
• ISBN10: 1850009430
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Focusing on the sociological embodiment of various "social actors", the authors consider the subsequent links with the constraints of daily life i.e. the male body, female therapists, body builders, marital and sexual counsellors, sex workers. They present recent or new research findings on aspects of the body, variants from what is conventionally seen as "natural" and consider and question aspects of self-image versus society's expectations. A number of developments in discussions of the body on such topics as feminist thought, the study of health and illness and cultural theory are presented as a series of essays which demonstrate the variety of interests mentioned.; The book is aimed at undergraduates/postgraduates students and lecturers in sociology, cultural studies, women's and gender studies.

Table of Contents

Bodies in a social landscape

"With My Body I Thee Worship"

dance and the culture of body

pumping iron

you too can have a body like mine - reflections on the male body and masculinities

selling the body, deeping the soul - sexuality, power, the theories and realities of prostitution

the inverted gaze, Ruth Waterhouse; purity and pollution - body management and the social place of infancy

afterward - constructing a research agenda

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