The Body:

Social Process and Cultural Theory

Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, Bryan S Turner

SAGE Publications, Feb 1, 1991 - Social Science - 408 pages

This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of the body in sources ranging from the work of Nietzsche to contemporary feminist theory. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies. These range from the expression of the emotions, romantic love, dietary practice, consumer culture, fitness and beauty, to media images of women and sexuality.

This wide-ranging book draws in part on papers published in Theory,

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About the author (1991)

Mike Hepworth is Reader in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out extensive research into images of ageing (visual and literary) and has published widely in this field. He is a member of the British Society of Gerontology, Age Concern Scotland and the Association for Education and Ageing and a founder editor of Theory, Culture and Society and Body of Society.

Bryan S. Turner is one of the world�s leading sociologists of religion; he has also devoted significant attention to sociological theory, the study of human rights, and the sociology of the body. In Vulnerability and Human Rights (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), he presents an interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion. His current research involves the role of religion in contemporary Asia and the changing nature of citizenship in a globalizing world. Turner has written, coauthored, or edited more than seventy books and more than two hundred articles and chapters. The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (Sage, 2008), first published in 1984, is in its third edition. He is also an author or editor of The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, and The Sage Handbook of Sociology. He is a founding editor of the journals Body & Society, Citizenship Studies, and Journal of Classical Sociology. Turner comes to the GC from Wellesley College, where he was Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor; he is also professor of social and political thought at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds and has been awarded the Doctor of Letters from both Flinders University in South Australia and the University of Cambridge.

Bibliographic information

Title	The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory Volume 7 of Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society Volume 7 of Theory, culture and society
Editors	Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, Bryan S Turner
Edition	illustrated, reprint
Publisher	SAGE Publications, 1991
ISBN	0803984138, 9780803984134
Length	408 pages
Subjects	Social Science › Sociology › General Social Science / Sociology / General

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