UID:
almafu_9958070476102883
Format:
x, 308 p. :
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ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-71753-9
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1-280-11037-6
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1-134-71754-7
,
0-585-46484-7
,
0-203-00688-7
Content:
We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our everyday life? This new and accessible introduction to the sociology of the body explores how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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chapter 1 The body in everyday life --
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part Part I Physical and emotional bodies --
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chapter 2 The body as a chemistry experiment --
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chapter 3 Immunology on the street --
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chapter 4 Feeling letdown --
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chapter 5 Going with the flow --
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part Part II Health and illness --
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chapter 6 Malignant bodies --
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chapter 7 Falling out with my shadow --
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chapter 8 The body, health and self in the middle years /
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part Part III Gender --
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chapter 9 Running around like a lunatic --
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chapter 10 The body resists --
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chapter 11 Natural for women, abnormal for men --
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chapter 12 Embodied obligation --
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part Part IV Ageing --
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chapter 13 The sight of age /
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chapter 14 Growing old gracefully as opposed to mutton dressed as lamb --
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chapter 15 The male menopause.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-16200-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-16201-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203006887
