Details

Subject(s)

• Human body—Social aspects [Browse]
• Body image [Browse]

Series

SAGE key concepts. [More in this series]

Summary note

This book provides a clear, focused road map to the study of the body in society. It defines, explains and applies core topics relating to the human body demonstrating how we approach it as a social phenomenon. Each concept: Includes an easy to understand definition ; Provides real-world examples ; Gives suggestions for further reading ; Is carefully cross-referenced to other related concepts. Written to meet the needs of the modern student, this book offers the basic materials, tools and guidance needed study and write about the body.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-213)

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Ageing and childhood
• Anorexia/bulimia/obesity
• Appearance and beauty
• Civilizing processes
• Class/caste
• Clothing
• Colonialism/post-colonialism
• Consumption
• Cyborgs
• Death and dying
• Difference
• Disability/ability
• Discourse
• Dualism
• Emotion
• Feminism
• Food and eating
• Gender/sex
• Genetics
• Gesture and habits
• Habitus
• Health and illness
• Identity
• Media and representation
• Medicine and science
• Modification/dysmorphias
• Nature/culture
• Pain
• Performativity
• Phenomenology
• Power
• Private and public
• Psychoanalysis
• Queer
• Race/ethnicity
• Religion
• Reproduction
• Sexuality
• Sport
• Technology
• Violence
• Work
• Youth and children.

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Other title(s)

Body and society

ISBN

• 1847875440
• 9781847875440
• 9781847875433 (hardback)
• 1847875432 (hardback)

OCLC

794038022

RCP

H - S

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