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Titolo: |
Routledge handbook of body studies / / edited by Bryan S. Turner
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.4/613 |
Soggetto topico: | Human body - Social aspects |
Human body in popular culture | |
Altri autori: |
TurnerBryan S
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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: | 1-136-90331-3 |
1-136-90332-1 | |
0-203-84209-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810390903321 |
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