基本説明
生物学的な身体に対して社会的な身体に照準を合わせる身体の社会学。フーコーやアナール学派といった社会史、フェミニズム、文化人類学、社会心理学や哲学、医療社会学などの成果をもとに、社会学を身体を通して読み直す、という学際的試み。各所に分散した関連文献を、古典から最新のものまで各種雑誌、論文集等から渉猟、精選収録した、始めるための必備コレクション。
Contents: Vol. 1: Bodies through Time/ Vol. 2: Representing Bodies/ Vol. 3: Living and Dying Bodies/ Vol. 4: Future Bodies.
Full Description
This collection offers a uniquely comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and a robust source for scholars working in the area. The central focus is on understanding sociology through the body; what is often described as re-reading sociology in a 'more corporeal light'. This is an interdisciplinary process, drawing on history, feminism, cultural history, art history, anthropology, social psychology, philosophy, medical sociology and media and communications, as well as sociology. While this has been primarily a Western practice, The Body seeks to broaden the perspective to include references that draw on alternative cultural assumptions, beliefs and practices (including Japan, and South America.)
Contents
I. Knowing Bodies
II. Sociology, Nature and the Body
III. Body History
IV. Living and Dying Bodies
V. 'Alternative' Bodies
