6 edition of The Body in Society found in the catalog.
Published
January 1, 2004
by Polity Press
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Written in
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | 208 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL7956345M |
| ISBN 10 | 0745625371 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780745625379 |
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Written in a clear and comprehensible way, The Body in Society introduces students to the key conceptual frameworks that help us to understandthe social significance of the human body. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to take into account recent theories and debates and also includes enhanced pedagogical : Baker And Taylor. Book Description. Body Problems addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food culture. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses a growing, fundamental dilemma that we have ample access to abundant calories yet lead.
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About this journal. Body & Society has from its inception in March as a peer-reviewed companion journal to Theory, Culture & Society, pioneered and shaped the field of has been committed to theoretical openness characterized by the publication of a wide range of critical approaches to the body, alongside the encouragement and development of innovative work that contains a.
The Body in Society will be an essential text for students exploring the body's role in social relations.’ Victoria Pitts-Taylor, City University of New York ‘Sociological interest in the body has burgeoned since the s, but few writers have managed to provide such a sophisticated interweaving of theoretical approaches with applied Cited by: First published inPeter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.
Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians Cited by: First published inPeter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.
Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians.
This is a text book that I had to read for a The Body in Society book class. Alexandra Howson does a really good job of talking about how the body is viewed in society. It is a little dry, but I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in a good analysis of how the body is seen in our society/5.
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; literally: 'Three-Body'; pinyin: sān tǐ) is a hard science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu is the first novel of the Remembrance of Earth's Past (Chinese: 地球往事) trilogy, but Chinese readers generally refer to the whole series by the title of this first novel.
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The Body And Society is now better than ever. Turner bridges the organic and cultural with his philosophical and theological aspirations: the result is a penetrating analysis of society's blend of bodies - from erotic to famished bodies, labouring to desiring bodies Anthony Elliott Flinders University.
TCS is an academic publishing cluster now based at Goldsmiths, University of London. It comprises the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society, as well as the Theory, Culture & Society Book Series. This volume presents the current state of research and clinical knowle dge on traumatic stress and its treatment.
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Originally published inThe Body and Society flew against prevailing trends which asked sociologists to understand society in terms of abstractions such as structure, class and function. Instead, in a series of dazzling chapters, Bryan S Turner argued that the body should be the axis of sociological analysis.
The Second Edition of this ground-breaking book includes a new introduction 5/5(1). Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library. Book Reviews. We now concentrate on publishing book reviews online rather than in the journal pages of Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society.
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In this captivating book Anthony Synnott explores a subject which has been woefully ignored: our bodies. He surveys the history for thinking about the body and the senses, then focuses on specific themes: gender, beauty, the face, hair, touch, smell and sight.
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Throughout every phase of our lives, our appearance is judged and critiqued. Our looks are compared with those of our peers, our sisters, the women in the media.Body, Self, and Society The View from Fiji Anne E.
Becker. pages | 6 x 9 | 33 illus. Paper | ISBN | $s | Outside the Americas £ Ebook editions are available from selected online vendors "This illuminating and well-written book offers anthropologists with an interest in embodiment, concepts of the self, and medical anthropology a fascinating 'view from Fiji.'"—.Get this from a library!
The body & society: explorations in social theory. [Bryan S Turner] -- In a series of chapters, Bryan S. Turner explores various approaches to the body which sociologists have generally neglected, including the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and Feuerbach's work on.
