Routledge handbook of body studies / / edited by Bryan S. Turner

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/613
• Soggetto topico: Human body - Social aspects; Human body in popular culture
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: TurnerBryan S
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Routledge Handbook of Body Studies; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Board; List of contributors; Introduction: The Turn of the Body: Bryan S. Turner; Body, Self and Society; 1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body: Mary Evans; 2. Pragmatism's Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience to Somaesthetics: Richard Shusterman; 3. Norbert Elias and the Body: Mike Atkinson; 4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault: Bryan S. Turner; 5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment: Ken Plummer ; 6. Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science and Technology: Patricia Ticineto Clough7. Foucault's Body: Nikki Sullivan; What is a Body?; 8. Layers or Versions? Human Bodies and the Love of Bitterness: Annemarie Mol; 9. Phenomenology and the Body: Nick Crossley; 10. Social Constructionism and the Body: Darin Weinberg; 11. From Embodied Regulations to Hybrid Ontologies: Questioning: Stratos Naneglou; 12. Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism: Victoria Pitts-Taylor; Religion and the Body ; 13. Relics of Faith: Fleshly Desires, Ascetic Disciplines and Devotional Affect in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement: Tulasi Srinivas14. The Body and the Veil: Sonja van Wichelen; 15. Recomposing Decimated Bodies: Nurit Stadler; Medical Regimes and the Body; 16. Death Signals Life: A Semiotics of the Corpse: Lianna Hart and Stefan Timmermans; 17. Beyond the Anorexic Paradigm: Re-Thinking 'Eating' Disorders: Susan Bordo; 18. Disability, Impairment and the Body: Christopher A. Faircloth; 19. The Body, Social Inequality and Health: Kevin White ; 20. Health and the Embodiment of the Life Course: Jenny Hockey and Allison JamesGender, Sexualities and Race; 21. Chinese Male Bodies: A Transnational Study of Masculinity and Sexuality: Travis S. K. Kong; 22. Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men's Bodies: The Need for a Concept of Gex: Jeff Hearn; 23. Racialized Bodies: Maxine Leeds Craig; Technologies and Body Modification; 24. Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint, as Commodity, as Commonplace: Heather Laine Talley; 25. Modified Bodies: Texts, Projects and Process: Paul Sweetman ; 26. Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy: Tiago Moreira and Paolo Palladino27. Rejecting the Aging Body: Alex Dumas; 28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and Illusio: Arthur W. Frank; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies - such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics - have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-human
• Titolo autorizzato: Routledge handbook of body studies
• ISBN: 1-136-90332-1; 0-203-84209-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451741003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge International Handbooks