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The Body : social process and cultural theory / edited by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, Bryan S. Turner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Publication details: London ; Newbury Park, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 1991.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 408 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585381577
  • 9780585381572
  • 080398412X
  • 9780803984127
  • 0803984138
  • 9780803984134
  • 9781446280546
  • 1446280543
  • 1848609159
  • 9781848609150
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Body.DDC classification:
  • 306.4 20
LOC classification:
  • HM110 .B66 1991eb
Other classification:
  • 71.40
  • 361.4
  • 361.4
Online resources:
Contents:
Recent developments in the theory of the body / Bryan S. Turner -- For a sociology of the body : an analytical review / Arthur W. Frank -- On human beings and their emotions : a process-sociological essay / Norbert Elias -- On the civilizing of appetite / Stephen Mennell -- The discourse of diet / Bryan S. Turner -- The body in consumer culture / Mike Featherstone -- The midlifestyle of 'George and Lynne' : notes on a popular strip / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth -- Martial arts as a resource for liberal education : the case of Aikido / Donald N. Levine -- Bio-politics and social policy : Foucault's account of welfare / Martin Hewitt -- Genealogy and the body : Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche / Scott Lash -- The art of the body in the discourse of postmodernity / Roy Boyne -- Love's labour lost? A sociological view / Margareta Bertilsson -- Biographical boundaries : sociology and Marilyn Monroe / Graham McCann -- Carmen -- or the invention of a new feminine myth / Dick Pels and Aya Crébas -- The mask of ageing and the postmodern life course / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth.
Summary: Exploring the origins of a social theory of the body, the theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated in this book through specific case studies. This text continues the arguments of Turner in his book 'The Body and Society'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Exploring the origins of a social theory of the body, the theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated in this book through specific case studies. This text continues the arguments of Turner in his book 'The Body and Society'.

Recent developments in the theory of the body / Bryan S. Turner -- For a sociology of the body : an analytical review / Arthur W. Frank -- On human beings and their emotions : a process-sociological essay / Norbert Elias -- On the civilizing of appetite / Stephen Mennell -- The discourse of diet / Bryan S. Turner -- The body in consumer culture / Mike Featherstone -- The midlifestyle of 'George and Lynne' : notes on a popular strip / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth -- Martial arts as a resource for liberal education : the case of Aikido / Donald N. Levine -- Bio-politics and social policy : Foucault's account of welfare / Martin Hewitt -- Genealogy and the body : Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche / Scott Lash -- The art of the body in the discourse of postmodernity / Roy Boyne -- Love's labour lost? A sociological view / Margareta Bertilsson -- Biographical boundaries : sociology and Marilyn Monroe / Graham McCann -- Carmen -- or the invention of a new feminine myth / Dick Pels and Aya Crébas -- The mask of ageing and the postmodern life course / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth.

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