The mode of desire -- Sociology and the body -- The body and religion -- Bodily order -- Eve's body -- The end of patriarchy? -- The disciplines -- Government of the body -- Disease and disorder -- Ontology of difference -- Bodies in motion -- The body and boredom -- Vulnerability and values
Summary
In a series of chapters, Bryan S. Turner explores various approaches to the body which sociologists have generally neglected, including the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and Feuerbach's work on sensualism. This edition reflects Turner's developing position on the centrality of vulnerability
Notes
Previous edition: 1996
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index
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