UID:
edocfu_9958093331202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (272 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-64949-5
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1-134-64950-9
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1-280-33212-3
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0-203-02568-7
Inhalt:
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 thinkers, from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, Deleuze to Guattari and Irigary to Grosz, in terms of the bodily themes and issues they address.They also explore new areas of researc
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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The 'dormant' body: sleep, night-time and dreams'Artistic' bodies: representation and resistance; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-19426-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-19425-3
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203025680
