{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-body-studies-9781138080119","title":"Routledge Handbook of Body Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies  such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics  have changed how we think about the body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants, racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders, religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise these different perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition, this \u003cem\u003eHandbook\u003c\/em\u003e explores various epistemological approaches to the basic quest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the Turn of the Body \u003cstrong\u003eBody, Self and Society \u003c\/strong\u003e1. Simone de Beauvoir and Binaries of the Body 2. Pragmatism’s Embodied Philosophy: From Immediate Experience to Somaesthetics 3. Norbert Elias and the Body 4. Embodied Practice: Martin Heidegger, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault 5. My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interactionism, Autoethnography and Embodiment 6. Feminist theory: Bodies, Science and Technology 7. Foucault’s Body \u003cstrong\u003eWhat is a Body? \u003c\/strong\u003e8. Layers or Versions? Human Bodies and the Love of Bitterness 9. Phenomenology and the Body 10. Social Constructionism and the Body 11. From Embodied Regulations to Hybrid Ontologies: Questioning Archaeological Bodies 12. Social Brains, Embodiment and Neuro-Interactionism \u003cstrong\u003eReligion and the Body \u003c\/strong\u003e13. Relics of Faith: Fleshly Desires, Ascetic Disciplines and Devotional Affect in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement 14. The Body and the Veil 15. Recomposing Decimated Bodies \u003cstrong\u003eMedical Regimes and the Body \u003c\/strong\u003e16. Death Signals Life: A Semiotics of the Corpse 17. Beyond the Anorexic Paradigm: Re-Thinking ‘Eating’ Disorders 18. Disability, Impairment and the Body 19. The Body, Social Inequality and Health 20. Health and the Embodiment of the Life Course \u003cstrong\u003eGender, Sexualities and Race \u003c\/strong\u003e21. Chinese Male Bodies: A Transnational Study of Masculinity and Sexuality 22. Male Bodies, Masculine Bodies, Men’s Bodies: The Need for a Concept of Gex 23. Racialized Bodies \u003cstrong\u003eTechnologies and Body Modification \u003c\/strong\u003e24. Getting Work Done: Cosmetic Surgery as Constraint, as Commodity, as Commonplace 25. Modified Bodies: Texts, Projects and Process 26. Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy 27. Rejecting the Aging Body\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and \u003cem\u003eIllusio\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019455398231,"sku":"9781138080119","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138080119.jpg?v=1750780323","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/routledge-handbook-of-body-studies-9781138080119","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}