About the Author -- Introduction -- 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 -- Glossary -- Bibliography.
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Summary
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.
