by Bryan Turner (Author), Mike Hepworth (Author), Mike Featherstone (Author), Bryan Turner (Author), Mike Featherstone (Author), Mike Hepworth (Author), Bryan Turner (Author)
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.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 420
Edition: 1
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 10 Jan 1991
ISBN 10: 0803984138
ISBN 13: 9780803984134
`This is a most important and interesting collection which does much to advance the sociology of the body...I congratulate the editors for a fine achievement and the editors of TCS for pioneering this new, and now much less secret, theorizing of the body and of the embodied self' - Contemporary Sociology