Interpreting the Body
Between Meaning and Matter
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2023
- Category
- Social Theory, Cultural, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781529211566
- Publish Date
- Aug 2023
- List Price
- $181.99
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Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other contexts, the book’s chapters call into question taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and the body begin and end. Encouraging reflection and opening new perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the literature on the body.
About the authors
Kathryn Linn Geurts' profile page
Sefakore Komabu-Pomeyie's profile page
Sweta Rajan-Rankin's profile page
Mrinalini Greedharry's profile page
Erin F. Johnston is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University.
Annemarie Jutel's profile page
Anne Marie Champagne is a PhD candidate in sociology and Center for Cultural Sociology Junior Fellow at Yale University.
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Asia Friedman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware.