This book provides a clear, focused road map to the study of the body in society. It defines, explains and applies core topics relating to the human body demonstrating how we approach it as a social phenomenon.

Table of Contents

• About the Author
• Introduction
• Ageing and Childhood
• Anorexia/Bulimia/Obesity
• Appearance and Beauty
• Civilizing Processes
• Class/Caste
• Clothing
• Colonialism/Post-colonialism
• Consumption
• Cyborgs
• Death and Dying
• Difference
• Disability/Ability
• Discourse
• Dualism
• Emotion
• Feminism
• Food and Eating
• Gender/Sex
• Genetics
• Gesture and Habits
• Habitus
• Health and Illness
• Identity
• Media and Representation
• Medicine and Science
• Modification/Dysmorphias
• Nature/Culture
• Pain
• Performativity
• Phenomenology
• Power
• Private and Public
• Psychoanalysis
• Queer
• Race/Ethnicity
• Religion
• Reproduction
• Sexuality
• Sport
• Technology
• Violence
• Work
• Youth and Children
• Glossary
• Bibliography