The body and everyday life

In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting, y...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thomas, Helen, 1947-, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge 2013.
Series:New sociology series.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798174506719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: enter the body
  • Performing the body
  • Performing gender : the body in question
  • Ethnographies of the body : absent-presence
  • Older bodies : performing age, ageing and invisibility.