Mike Featherstone & Mike Hepworth 
The Body [PDF ebook] 
Social Process and Cultural Theory

This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of the body in sources ranging from the work of Nietzsche to contemporary feminist theory.

The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies. These range from the expression of the emotions, romantic love, dietary practice, consumer culture, fitness and beauty, to media images of women and sexuality.

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface – Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S Turner

Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body – Bryan S Turner

Bringing Bodies Back In – Arthur Frank

On Human Beings and Their Emotions – Norbert Elias

a Process-Sociological Essay

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′ – Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth

Martial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education – Donald N Levine

The Case of Aikido

Bio-politics and Social Policy – Martin Hewitt

Foucault′s Account of Welfare

Genealogy and The Body – Scott Lash

Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche

The Art of The Body in The Discourse of Postmodernity – Roy Boyne

Love′s Labour Lost? A Sociological View – Margareta Bertilsson

Biographical Boundaries – Graham Mc Cann

Sociology and Marilyn Monroe

Carmen – or The Invention of a New Feminine Myth – Dick Pels and Aya Crebas

The Mask of Ageing – Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth

Sociological Discourse and The Body – J M Berthelot

Circa l’autore

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.