|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910172240003321 |
|
|
Autore |
Williams Simon J (Simon Johnson), <1961-> |
|
|
Titolo |
The lived body : sociological themes, embodied issues / / Simon J. Williams and Gillian Bendelow |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-134-64949-5 |
1-134-64950-9 |
1-280-33212-3 |
0-203-02568-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (272 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Altri autori (Persone) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Human body - Social aspects |
Mind and body |
Dualism |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-252) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sociology and the 'problem' of the body; Bodily 'order': cultural and historical perspectives on conformity and transgression; Bodily 'control': body techniques, intercorporeality and the embodiment of social action; The body in 'high' modernity and consumer culture; The 'libidinal' body: psychoanalysis, critical theory and the 'problem' of human desire; 'Uncontainable' bodies? Feminisms, boundaries and reconfigured identities; The emotionally 'expressive' body; Pain and the 'dys-appearing' body |
The 'dormant' body: sleep, night-time and dreams'Artistic' bodies: representation and resistance; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body.The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas of a range of key |
|
|
|
|