SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Body and Society
SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Body and Society
Editor/Author
Cregan, Kate
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Sage UK
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-84787-544-0
Category: Social Sciences
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
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