The Body in Everyday Life

The Body in Everyday Life
ISBN-10
1134717539
ISBN-13
9781134717538
Category
Social Science
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2002-03-11
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Sarah Nettleton, Jonathan Watson

Description

We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This book sets out to explore how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies, through four central themes:- * physical and emotional bodies * illness and disability * gender * ageing. A coherent collection of such empirical research, The Body in Everyday Life provides an accessible introduction to the sociology of the body, a field previously dominated by theoretical or philosophical accounts.

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