Body studies: an introduction

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"In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students. Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses."--Back cover.

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Full title :Body studies : an introduction / Margo DeMello.

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Publication Date:2014.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 online resource (xvii, 348 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780203519608, 0203519604, 9781134084630, 1134084633, 9781134084777, 1134084773, 9781134084708, 1134084706, 9780415699297, 0415699290, 9780415699303, 0415699304
oclc:on1086461523
LC Classification:HM636
Dewey Decimal:306.4

pt. 1. Understanding the body from a social and cultural perspective -- pt. 2. The scientific and biomedical body -- pt. 3. Mapping difference onto bodies -- pt. 4. Bodies and privilege -- pt. 5. Extraordinary bodies -- pt. 6. State and corporate regulation of the body -- pt. 7. Bodies of the future.