Interpreting the Body Between Meaning and Matter |
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| Contribution by:
| Spatz, Ben
Linn Geurts, Kathryn
Komabu-Pomeyie, Sefakore
Rajan-Rankin, Sweta
Greedharry, Mrinalini
F. Monaghan, Lee
Sledge, Piper
F. Johnston, Erin
Miles, Brittney
Russo, Chandra
Jutel, Annemarie |
| Editor:
| Champagne, Anne-Marie
Friedman, Asia |
| Series title: | Interpretive Lenses in Sociology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5292-1157-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2024 |
| Publisher: | Policy Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $57.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionWritten 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.