Routledge Handbook of Body Studies (Routledge International Handbooks)

Front Cover; Routledge Handbook of Body Studies; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Board; List of contributors; Introduction: The Turn of the Body: Bryan S. Turner; Body, Self and Society; 1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body: Mary Evans; 2. Pragmatism's Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience to Somaesthetics: Richard Shusterman; 3. Norbert Elias and the Body: Mike Atkinson; 4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault: Bryan S. Turner; 5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment: Ken Plummer.;In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies -- such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics -- have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural s. Front Cover Routledge Handbook of Body Studies Copyright Page Contents Editorial Board List of contributors Introduction: The Turn of the Body: Bryan S. Turner Body, Self and Society 1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body: Mary Evans 2. Pragmatism's Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience to Somaesthetics: Richard Shusterman 3. Norbert Elias and the Body: Mike Atkinson 4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault: Bryan S. Turner 5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment: Ken Plummer. 6. Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science and Technology: Patricia Ticineto Clough7. Foucault's Body: Nikki Sullivan What is a Body? 8. Layers or Versions? Human Bodies and the Love of Bitterness: Annemarie Mol 9. Phenomenology and the Body: Nick Crossley 10. Social Constructionism and the Body: Darin Weinberg 11. From Embodied Regulations to Hybrid Ontologies: Questioning: Stratos Naneglou 12. Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism: Victoria Pitts-Taylor Religion and the Body. 13. Relics of Faith: Fleshly Desires, Ascetic Disciplines and Devotional Affect in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement: Tulasi Srinivas14. The Body and the Veil: Sonja van Wichelen 15. Recomposing Decimated Bodies: Nurit Stadler Medical Regimes and the Body 16. Death Signals Life: A Semiotics of the Corpse: Lianna Hart and Stefan Timmermans 17. Beyond the Anorexic Paradigm: Re-Thinking 'Eating' Disorders: Susan Bordo 18. Disability, Impairment and the Body: Christopher A. Faircloth 19. The Body, Social Inequality and Health: Kevin White. 20. Health and the Embodiment of the Life Course: Jenny Hockey and Allison JamesGender, Sexualities and Race 21. Chinese Male Bodies: A Transnational Study of Masculinity and Sexuality: Travis S.K. Kong 22. Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men's Bodies: The Need for a Concept of Gex: Jeff Hearn 23. Racialized Bodies: Maxine Leeds Craig Technologies and Body Modification 24. Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint, as Commodity, as Commonplace: Heather Laine Talley 25. Modified Bodies: Texts, Projects and Process: Paul Sweetman. 26. Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy: Tiago Moreira and Paolo Palladino27. Rejecting the Aging Body: Alex Dumas 28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and Illusio: Arthur W. Frank Index. In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies - such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics - have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants, racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders, religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores various epistemological approaches to the basic question: what is a body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine, gender, technology and consumption. It also contributes to the debate over the globalization of the body: how have military technology, modern medicine, sport and consumption led to this contemporary obsession with matters corporeal? The Handbook's clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies, social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to consolidate the new field of body studies In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants, racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders, religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores various epistemological approaches to the basic what is a body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine, gender, technology and consumption. It also contributes to the debate over the globalization of the how have military technology, modern medicine, sport and consumption led to this contemporary obsession with matters corporeal? The Handbook s clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies, social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to consolidate the new field of body studies. In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. This collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field explores these issues across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, with a wide range of case studies.