Interpreting the Body : between meaning and matter /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Champagne, Anne Marie (Editor ), Friedman, Asia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2023].
Colección:Interpretive lenses in sociology
Temas:
Mind and body.
Body image > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Friont Cover
  • Series page
  • Interpreting The Body: Between Meaning and Matter
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Series Editors' Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology-On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • References
  • 1 Toward a Strong Cultural Sociology of the Body and Embodiment
  • Culture and the body: modern, postmodern, and contemporary themes
  • The "absent presence" of culture and the body in early sociology
  • Interpreting modernity: the postmodern crisis of meaning and cultural thematization of materiality and the body
  • Toward a strong cultural sociology of the body and embodiment
  • The interpretive methodology of a strong cultural sociology of the body and embodiment
  • Cultural codes and the relative autonomy of culture
  • The hermeneutic reconstruction of meaning
  • Maximal interpretation: theory, description, and explanation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2 Thinking the Molecular
  • Hard and soft molecules
  • The romance of the molecular
  • Radical asymmetry
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3 Interpreting Africa's Seselelãme
  • Seselelãme in African everyday terms and in academic parlance
  • Seselelãme and globalization
  • Ewe speakers interpret seselelãme
  • Psychology, possessive individualism, and seselelãme's intersubjectivity
  • Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in Nervous Conditions
  • Phenomenology of Blackness
  • Gendering the colonial body
  • Literature as organic theory
  • Setting the scene: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
  • A colonial education
  • Regulating "good native girls"
  • Sick bodies: hunger, longing, and wasting away
  • Ambivalence and arrival
  • An end to nervous conditions?
  • Note
  • References
  • 5 Reinterpreting Male Bodies and Health in Crisis Times: From "Obesity" to Bigger Matters
  • The "problem" of men's and boys' weight/fatness: things are not what they seem
  • Structured health inequalities: insights from medical sociology and men's health
  • Concluding reflections
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 6 Beauty, Breasts, and Meaning after Mastectomy
  • The meaning of beauty in breast cancer recovery
  • Methods
  • Reinterpreting beauty
  • Form and function
  • Symmetry: beauty or vanity?
  • Scars as beautiful
  • Supports for reinterpreting beauty
  • Family interactions
  • Proximity to queerness
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 7 "You Are Not the Body": (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga
  • Making sense of embodied religious practices
  • Data and methods
  • Downplaying the physical: vocabularies of motive and transcendent goals
  • The body as object: metaphor, analogy, and practical enactment
  • Facilitating embodied experiences: verbal instruction in practice
  • Reflections and conclusions
  • Notes

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