Machine generated contents note: 1. Sociology and the 'problem' of the body -- 2. Bodily 'order': cultural and historical perspectives on conformity and transgression -- 3. Bodily 'control': body techniques, intercorporeality and the embodiment of social action -- 4. body in 'high' modernity and consumer culture -- 5. 'libidinal' body: psychoanalysis, critical theory and the 'problem' of human desire -- 6. 'Uncontainable' bodies? Feminisms, boundaries and reconfigured identities -- 7. emotionally 'expressive' body -- 8. Pain and the 'dys-appearing' body -- 9. 'dormant' body: sleep, night-time and dreams -- 10. 'Artistic' bodies: representation and resistance
Summary
This text critically examines the notion of human embodiment in both classical and contemporary thought. An embodied sociology is proposed, one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-252) and index
