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Organizing Bodies - Policy, Institutions and Work

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body! in terms of both empirical and theoretical study and debate. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.McKie & N.Watson PART I: THE EMBODIMENT OF POLITICS AND POLICY The Body of Social Policy: Social Policy and the Body; G.Lewis, G.Hughes & E.Saraga Redefining the Local Citizen; G.Daly & H.Cowen Secure Base? Disabling Design; D.Marks Accommodating Bodies: The Organisation of Corporeal Dirt in the Embodied Home; C.Gurney PART II: INSTITUTIONS CONSTRUCTING AND REPRESENTING BODIES Moving Bodies/Still Bodies: Embodiment and Agency in Schools; T.Gordon, J.Holland & E.Lahelma Feared and Revered Bodies, Racialised and Gendered Bodies: Media Representations of Christopher Clunis and Jayne Zito; S.Neal The Body's Double Skin: Forming the Protective Community of Grand Prix Motor Racing; A.Twitchen Social Death as Self-fulfilling Prophecy: David Sudnow's Passing On ; S.Timmermans PART III: WORKING BODIES Making Bodies, Making People, Making Work; L.Adkins & C.Lury 'When a Body Meets a Body...': Experiencing the Female Body at Work; J.Brewis Equal Opportunities Strategies: Ways of Developing Feminist Embodiment as a Physical Reality in Bureaucracies?; C.Bennett Energy and the Body: The Activist as Worker; D.King Index...

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Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.McKie & N.Watson PART I: THE EMBODIMENT OF POLITICS AND POLICY The Body of Social Policy: Social Policy and the Body; G.Lewis, G.Hughes & E.Saraga Redefining the Local Citizen; G.Daly & H.Cowen Secure Base? Disabling Design; D.Marks Accommodating Bodies: The Organisation of Corporeal Dirt in the Embodied Home; C.Gurney PART II: INSTITUTIONS CONSTRUCTING AND REPRESENTING BODIES Moving Bodies/Still Bodies: Embodiment and Agency in Schools; T.Gordon, J.Holland & E.Lahelma Feared and Revered Bodies, Racialised and Gendered Bodies: Media Representations of Christopher Clunis and Jayne Zito; S.Neal The Body's Double Skin: Forming the Protective Community of Grand Prix Motor Racing; A.Twitchen Social Death as Self-fulfilling Prophecy: David Sudnow's Passing On ; S.Timmermans PART III: WORKING BODIES Making Bodies, Making People, Making Work; L.Adkins & C.Lury 'When a Body Meets a Body...': Experiencing the Female Body at Work; J.Brewis Equal Opportunities Strategies: Ways of Developing Feminist Embodiment as a Physical Reality in Bureaucracies?; C.Bennett Energy and the Body: The Activist as Worker; D.King Index

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Authors Linda Watson Mckie, MCKIE LINDA WATSON NICK
Assisted by Mckie (Editor), L McKie (Editor), L. McKie (Editor), Linda Mckie (Editor), Watson (Editor), Watson (Editor), N. Watson (Editor), Nick Watson (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 08.09.2000
 
EAN 9780333774465
ISBN 978-0-333-77446-5
No. of pages 256
Series Explorations in Sociology.
Explorations in Sociology. British Sociological Association Conference Volume Series
Policies, Institutions and Wor
Explorations in Sociology.
Policies, Institutions and Wor
Subjects Guides
Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous

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