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The body in everyday life /

We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our everyday life? This new and accessible introduction to the sociology of the body explores how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nettleton, Sarah, 1960-, Watson, Jonathan, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Physical and emotional bodies
  • The body as a chemistry experiment : steroid use among South Wales bodybuilders / Michael Bloor, Lee Monaghan, Russell P. Dobash, and Rebecca E. Dobash
  • Immunology on the street : how nonscientists see the immune system / Emily Martin
  • 'Feeling letdown' : an exploration of an embodied sensation associated with breastfeeding / Cathryn Britton
  • Going with the flow : some central discourses in conceptualising and articulating the embodiment of emotional states / Deborah Lupton
  • pt. 2. Health and illness
  • Malignant bodies : children's beliefs about health, cancer and risk / Simon J. Williams and Gillian A. Bendelow
  • Falling out with my shadow : lay perceptions of the body in the context of arthritis / Bethan Williams and Julie H. Barlow
  • The body, health and self in the middle years / Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Kathryn Backett-Milburn
  • pt. 3. Gender
  • Running around like a lunatic : Colin's body and the case of male embodiment / Jonathan Watson
  • The body resists : everyday clerking and unmilitary practice / Paul Higate
  • Natural for women, abnormal for men : beliefs about pain and gender / Gillian A. Bendelow and Simon J. Williams
  • Embodied obligation : the female body and health surveillance / Alexandra Howson
  • pt. 4. Ageing
  • The sight of age / Bill Bytheway and Julia Johnson
  • 'Growing old gracefully' as opposed to 'mutton dressed as lamb' : the social construction of recognising older women / Eileen Fairhurst
  • The male menopause : lay accounts and the cultural reconstruction of midlife / Mike Hepworth and Mike Featherstone.