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Author Turner, Bryan S.

Title The body and society : explorations in social theory / Bryan S. Turner
Edition Second edition
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996

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Description xiv, 254 pages ; 24 cm
Series Theory, culture & society
Theory, culture & society / Unnumbered
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface to the Second Edition -- Representing the Body as a Pictorial Metaphor -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- The Embodiment of Social Theory -- Introduction to the First Edition -- Body Paradoxes -- The Mode of Desire -- Sociology and the Body -- The Body and Religion -- Bodily Order -- Patriarchy -- Eve's Body -- From Patriarchy to Patrism -- The Disciplines -- Government of the Body -- Disease and Disorder -- Ontology of Difference
Analysis Humans Body Related to Culture
Humans Body Related to Culture
Notes 1st ed. published by Blackwell, 1984
Index: p. [247]-254
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-245) and index
Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Sociology.
Human Body.
Sociology.
LC no. 96068999
ISBN 0803988087
0803988095 (paperback)
Other Titles Body & society
The Body & society