The body : social process and cultural theory /


edited by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, Bryan S. Turner.
Bok Engelsk 1991
Utgitt
London : : SAGE, , 1991.
Omfang
1 online resource (vi, 408 p.) : : ill.
Opplysninger
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.; (Cont.) Sociological discourse and the body / J.M. Berthelot.. - 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'.. - Specialized.
Emner
Dewey
304
ISBN
0-585-38157-7. - 1-4462-8054-3. - 1-84860-915-9

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