Title: Key concepts in body and society /
Authors: Cregan, Kate.
Publisher: Sage,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Human body Social aspects; Body image
Abstract: 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.
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.