Cregan, Kate,

Key concepts in body and society / Kate Cregan. - vii, 213 pages ; 21 cm. - SAGE key concepts . - SAGE key concepts. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

1847875440 9781847875440 1847875432 9781847875433

2011938975


Human body--Social aspects
Body image.

HM636 / .C738 2012 HM636 / .C74 2012

306.4613