Sociology of the body : a reader

"Sociology of the Body: A Reader brings together forty-two essays exploring the multitude of ways in which human bodies shape and are shaped by society. Revised to reflect the current state of the field, this second edition now incorporates an overarching intersectional approach to conceptualiz...

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HerausgeberIn: Low, Jacqueline
Malacrida, Claudia
Ort / Verlag / Datum:Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : Oxford University Press, [2016]
© 2016
Erscheinungsjahr:2016
Ausgabe:Second edition
Sprache:Englisch
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Klassifikation:306 Kultur, Sozialgeschichte
306.461
Beschreibung:xviii, 350 Seiten; 23 cm
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  • First edition published in 2008
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Zusammenfassung:"Sociology of the Body: A Reader brings together forty-two essays exploring the multitude of ways in which human bodies shape and are shaped by society. Revised to reflect the current state of the field, this second edition now incorporates an overarching intersectional approach to conceptualizing the body...both in relation to social processes, such as medicalization and reproduction, and social relationships, such as the construction of difference. The volume has therefore been carefully updated and re-organized not only to illuminate how bodies are used, shaped, presented, understood, and managed in society, but also to show how complex interactions of gender, sexuality, nationhood, ability and other social categories work together in the creation of inequality. This second edition also enhances theoretical and historical foundations of the book, helping students to better comprehend historical continuities and discontinuities of the social treatment and understanding of the body. Detailed, thought-provoking, and altogether current, this collection remains an essential introduction to the theories, issues, and perspectives informing a sociological understanding of the body today."...
ISBN:9780199019236
0199019231
AC Nummer:AC13315682
Hierarchiestufe:Monografie
Erscheinungsform:Buch
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Inhalt:Text
Medientyp:Analog
Datenträger:Analog