Corporeality : the body and society /
Corporeality : the body and society /
edited by Cassandra A. Ogden and Stephen Wakeman ; series editor, Katherine Harrison.
- 1 online resource (181 pages).
- Issues in the Social Sciences ; 8 .
- Issues in the social sciences ; 8. .
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Transforming Fat Bodies : Lifestyle Media and Corporeal Responsibility / Jayne Raisorough -- Using Women : Embodied Deviance, Pollution and Reproductive Regimes / Elizabeth Ettorre -- For an Embodied Sociology of Drug Use : Mephedrone and "Corporeal Pleasure" / Stephen Wakeman -- Why Critical Disability Studies? / Dan Goodley -- Surveillance of the Leaky Child : No-body's Normal but that Doesn't Stop Us Trying / Cassandra A. Ogden -- Mercenary Killer or Embodied Veteran? The Case of Paul Slough and the Nisour Square Massacre / Paul Higate -- Commemorating Fatalities of War and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century / Michael S. Drake -- Governing the Body : The Legal, Administrative and Discursive Control of the Psychiatric Patient / Paul Taylor.
Regardless of how a person spends her or his day, in a classroom, in work or outside employment, whatever our thoughts, beliefs and experiences of life, all living is embodied. We are of and within our bodies. During the last thirty years, social scientists have increasingly turned their attention to the body as a site of both theoretical engagement and empirical exploration. Recently, public discourse has also become preoccupied with embodied debates: the obesity crisis and the London 2012 Paralympics have located the body firmly in the realm of public interest. The new essays collected in Co.
9781908258540 (electronic bk.) 1908258543 (electronic bk.)
Social archaeology--Congresses.
Human body--Social aspects--History--Congresses.
Human body--Symbolic aspects--History--Congresses.
Archéologie sociale--Congrès.
Corps humain--Aspect social--Histoire--Congrès.
Corps humain--Aspect symbolique--Histoire--Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Human body--Social aspects.
Human body--Symbolic aspects.
Social archaeology.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books--Conference papers and proceedings --History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
CC72.4 / .C677 2013eb
305.4093
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Transforming Fat Bodies : Lifestyle Media and Corporeal Responsibility / Jayne Raisorough -- Using Women : Embodied Deviance, Pollution and Reproductive Regimes / Elizabeth Ettorre -- For an Embodied Sociology of Drug Use : Mephedrone and "Corporeal Pleasure" / Stephen Wakeman -- Why Critical Disability Studies? / Dan Goodley -- Surveillance of the Leaky Child : No-body's Normal but that Doesn't Stop Us Trying / Cassandra A. Ogden -- Mercenary Killer or Embodied Veteran? The Case of Paul Slough and the Nisour Square Massacre / Paul Higate -- Commemorating Fatalities of War and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century / Michael S. Drake -- Governing the Body : The Legal, Administrative and Discursive Control of the Psychiatric Patient / Paul Taylor.
Regardless of how a person spends her or his day, in a classroom, in work or outside employment, whatever our thoughts, beliefs and experiences of life, all living is embodied. We are of and within our bodies. During the last thirty years, social scientists have increasingly turned their attention to the body as a site of both theoretical engagement and empirical exploration. Recently, public discourse has also become preoccupied with embodied debates: the obesity crisis and the London 2012 Paralympics have located the body firmly in the realm of public interest. The new essays collected in Co.
9781908258540 (electronic bk.) 1908258543 (electronic bk.)
Social archaeology--Congresses.
Human body--Social aspects--History--Congresses.
Human body--Symbolic aspects--History--Congresses.
Archéologie sociale--Congrès.
Corps humain--Aspect social--Histoire--Congrès.
Corps humain--Aspect symbolique--Histoire--Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Human body--Social aspects.
Human body--Symbolic aspects.
Social archaeology.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books--Conference papers and proceedings --History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
CC72.4 / .C677 2013eb
305.4093