The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues,9780203025680

The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

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ISBN13: 9780203025680
ISBN10: 0203025687
Pub. Date: 2002-04-12
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

"The 'Lived' Body" takes a fresh look at the problem of human embodiment through a critical examination of the dualist legacies of the past. A broad range of classical and contemporary social theorists are surveyed--from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, Deleuze to Guattari and Irigaray to Grosz--in terms of the bodily themes and issues they raise. A variety of new areas of research in this rapidly expanding field are also considered, including medical technology and the "fate" of human embodiment, the sociology of emotion, the problem of pain, sleep and dreams, and the relationship between the body, art and society.

Table of 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: representaion and resistance
Conclusions
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