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The lived body : sociological themes, embodied issues /

By: Williams, Simon J. (Simon Johnson), 1961-.
Contributor(s): Bendelow, Gillian, 1956-.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: viii, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415194253 (hbk); 9780415194259:; 9780415194259 (hbk); 0415194261 (pbk); 9780415194266 (pbk).Subject(s): Human body -- Social aspects | Body, Human -- Social aspects | Mind and body | DualismDDC classification: 306.4
Contents:
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 -- The 'dormant' body: sleep, night-time and dreams -- 'Artistic' bodies: representation and resistance.
Summary: This text critically examines the notion of human embodiment in both classical and contemporary thought. An embodied sociology is proposed, one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-252) and index.

1. Sociology and the 'problem' of the body -- 2. Bodily 'order': cultural and historical perspectives on conformity and transgression -- 3. Bodily 'control': body techniques, intercorporeality and the embodiment of social action -- 4. The body in 'high' modernity and consumer culture -- 5. The 'libidinal' body: psychoanalysis, critical theory and the 'problem' of human desire -- 6. 'Uncontainable' bodies? Feminisms, boundaries and reconfigured identities -- 7. The emotionally 'expressive' body -- 8. Pain and the 'dys-appearing' body -- 9. The 'dormant' body: sleep, night-time and dreams -- 10. 'Artistic' bodies: representation and resistance.

This text critically examines the notion of human embodiment in both classical and contemporary thought. An embodied sociology is proposed, one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral.

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