Blackman Lisa. The Body: The key concepts

Berg, 2008. — 160 p. — ISBN: 1847886213, 9781847886217.The Body: the key concepts highlights and analyses the debates which make the body central to current sociological, psychological, cultural and feminist thinking. Today, questions around the body are intrinsic to a wide range of debates - from technological developments in media and communications, to socio-cultural questions around representation, performance, class, race, gender and sexuality, to the more 'physical' concerns of health and illness, sleep, diet and eating disorders, body parts and the senses.The Body: the key concepts is the ideal introduction for any student seeking a concise and up-to-date analysis of the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture.Introduction: Thinking through the Body
The Problem of Dualism
The Problem of the Body as Substance
The Body as an ‘Absent Present’
The Transdisciplinarity of ‘Body Studies’
Horse–Human Relations
The Affective BodyRegulated and Regulating BodiesThe Sociological Body
The Naturalistic Body
The Materialist Body
The Socially Constructed Body
The Micro and the Macro
The Disciplined Body
Agency and the Body
The Somatically Felt Body
The Sleeping Body
EmbodimentCommunicating BodiesSocial Influence
Becoming (Horse–Human)
Body Language
The Body and Performance
Emotional ContagionSelf-containment and Othering 47
Affective Transmission 49
The Civilized Body 50
The Somatically Felt Body
The Vitalist Body
The Networked Body
The Feeling BodyBodies and DifferenceBodily Markers of Respectability
Corporeal Capital
Feelings and Bodily Dispositions
Bodily Affectivity
Embodiment and Media Consumption
The Body and Individualization
The Politics of Female Bodies
The Corporeal Turn
Feminine Becoming and Internalization
Corporeal Feminism
PerformativityLived BodiesThe Sensient Body
Touch
Taste
The Mouth
The Mouth and Taste
Abjection
Smell
The Articulated Body
Healthism and the Body
Self-health
Narratives and Bodily MattersThe Body as EnactmentProcess
The Body-in-Movement
Bodies without Organs
The Molecular Body
Posthuman Bodies
Companion Species
Actor Network Theory
The Body Multiple
Socialized Biology
The Body and Psychiatric Culture
Conclusion: Enacted Materialities
Conclusion: Imagining the Future of the Body within the AcademyThe Affective Body Immaterial Bodies Modulation Biomediation Corporeal Thinking Conclusion
Questions for Essays and Classroom Discussion Annotated Guide for Further Reading Bibliography