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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Editorial Board
List of contributors
Introduction: The Turn of the Body
Body, Self and Society
1. 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
What is a Body?
8. 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
Religion and the Body
13. 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
Medical Regimes and the Body
16. 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
Gender, Sexualities and Race
21. 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
Technologies and Body Modification
24. 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
28. Conclusion: The Varieties of My Body: Pain, Ethics and Illusio
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