Reak Bodies - A Sociological Introduction

This introductory text sets out to make the links between sociological theories of the body and actual human behaviour and experience. It covers a broad range of topics, from long-standing sociological concerns to more contemporary issues. With a focus on the changeability of the body, it examines the part that bodies play in the social construction of categories such as race, sexuality and disability and explores how we express ourselves through our bodies, whether in eating, dress or pain. It also debates how the body is regulated, both through the life course and in reproduction.>

List of contents

Real Bodies: An Introduction; M.Evans
The Masculine Body; S,Sheldon
Sexualized Bodies; K.Stephen
Racialized Bodies; S.Ahmed
The 'Disabled' Body; C.Thomas
The Body in Pain; D.Morgan
The Child's Body; J.Bridgeman
The Pregnant Body; E.Lee and E.Jackson
The Dressed Body; J.Entwistle
Feeding the Body; J.Sayers
Ageing Bodies; H.Biggs.

About the author

Mary Evans is Visiting Fellow at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, UK.ELLIE LEE is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Evans
• Assisted by: Mar Evans (Editor), Mary Evans (Editor), LEE (Editor), Lee (Editor), Ellie Lee (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.06.2002
• EAN: 9780333947524
• ISBN: 978-0-333-94752-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Anthropology, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, behavior;reproduction;sociology