Key concepts in body and society [electronic resource] / Kate Cregan

Author: Cregan, Kate
Published: Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, 2012.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 213 pages) : portrait

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Series

SAGE key concepts

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Ageing and Childhood -- Anorexia/Bulimia/Obesity -- Appearance and Beauty -- Civilizing Processes -- Class/Caste -- Clothing -- Colonialism/Post-colonialism -- Consumption -- Cyborgs -- Death and Dying -- Difference -- Disability/Ability -- Discourse -- Dualism -- Emotion -- Feminism -- Food and Eating -- Gender/Sex -- Genetics -- Gesture and Habits -- Habitus -- Health and Illness -- Identity -- Media and Representation -- Medicine and Science -- Modification/Dysmorphias -- Nature/Culture -- Pain -- Performativity -- Phenomenology -- Power -- Private and Public -- Psychoanalysis -- Queer -- Race/Ethnicity -- Religion -- Reproduction -- Sexuality -- Sport -- Technology -- Violence -- Work -- Youth and Children.

Summary

Clear, focused and informative, this student friendly text is the perfect introduction to a diverse field. Written by an acknowledged authority, it defines, applies and explains the core topics needed to understand the body in modern society.

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ISBN

9781473914650 (ebook)

Audience Notes

Specialized.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references.

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