Interpreting the Body

Interpreting the Body

Between Meaning and Matter
Buch | Softcover
282 Seiten
2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-1157-3 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
Written by leading social scientists, this ambitious volume asks what individuals' "handling" of bodies reveal about inequality, social order and cultural change in societies.
Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society.


Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other contexts, the book’s chapters call into question taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and the body begin and end.


Encouraging reflection and opening new perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the literature on the body.

Anne Marie Champagne is a PhD candidate in sociology and Center for Cultural Sociology junior fellow at Yale University. Asia Friedman is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Delaware.

Introduction: Between Meaning and Matter - Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman


1. Toward a Strong Cultural Sociology of the Body and Embodiment - Anne Marie Champagne


2. Thinking the Molecular - Ben Spatz


3. Interpreting Africa’s Seselelãme: Bodily Ways of Knowing in a Globalized World - Kathryn Linn Geurts and Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie


4. Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in Nervous Conditions - Sweta Rajan-Rankin and Mrinalini Greedharry


5. Reinterpreting Male Bodies and Health in Crisis Times: From “Obesity” to Bigger Matters - Lee F. Monaghan


6. Beauty, Breasts, and Meaning after Mastectomy - Piper Sledge


7. “You Are Not the Body”: (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga - Erin F. Johnston


8. Black Girls’ Bodies and Belonging in the Classroom - Brittney Miles


9. Embodied Vulnerability and Sensemaking with Solidarity Activists - Chandra Russo


10. Our Bodies, Our Disciplines, Our Selves - Annemarie Jutel

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
Co-Autor Ben Spatz, Kathryn Linn Geurts, Sefakore Komabu-Pomeyie, Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Mrinalini Greedharry
Zusatzinfo 2 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-5292-1157-3 / 1529211573
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-1157-3 / 9781529211573
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