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Organizing Bodies: Policy, Institutions and Work (Explorations in Sociology.)

Organizing Bodies: Policy, Institutions and Work (Explorations in Sociology.)

by Linda Mc Kie (Editor), NickWatson (Editor)

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There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, in terms of both empirical and theoretical study and debate. Contributions to this volume move these debates forward by considering a range of bodies as active in the social and economic processes of policy-making, institutions and employment. Contributors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 2000
 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 05 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 0333774477
ISBN 13: 9780333774472
Book Overview: LISA ADKINS Research Fellow in Sociology, Australian National University CINNAMON BENNETT Lecturer in Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University JOANNA BREWIS Lecturer in Management, University of Essex HARRY COWEN Principal Lecturer in Social Policy, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education GUY DALY Head of the School of Social Sciences, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education TUULA GORDON Professor of Women's Studies and Social Sciences, University of Tampere CRAIG GURNEY Lecturer in Housing, Centre for Housing Management and Development, Cardiff University GORDON HUGHES Lecturer in Social Policy, Open University JANET HOLLAND Professor of Social Research and Director of Social Services Research Centre, South Bank University, London DEBRA KING Lecturer in Sociology, Flinders University, South Australia ELINA LAHELMA Docent in Sociology of Education, University of Helsinki GAIL LEWIS Lecturer in Social Policy, Open University CELIA LURY Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College DEBORAH MARKS Course Director, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, Sheffield University SARAH NEAL Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University ESTHER SARAGA Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Social Sciences, Open University STEFAN TIMMERMANS Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University, USA ALEX TWITCHEN Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport, University College, Chichester

Author Bio
LINDA MCKIE is Research Professor in Sociology, Glasgow Caledonian University. Her current interests are employment, caring and citizenship, the process of disclosing domestic violence in primary health care, and lay perceptions of health and illness. Recent publications include Gender, Power and the Household (edited with S.Bowlby and S. Gregory, 1999).

NICK WATSON lectures in medical sociology in the Department of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh. His current research interests are mainly in the field of disability studies and he has just finished work on an ESRC funded research project Life as a Disabled Child.