The body in late-capitalist USA

by Lowe, Donald M.

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Full title :The body in late-capitalist USA / Donald M. Lowe.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1995.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:1995.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (197 pages)

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ISBN:9780822381969, 0822381966
oclc:ocn220949969
LC Classification:HN59.2
Dewey Decimal:306.4

Introduction: Language, Body Practices, and the Social -- 1 Production Practices -- a. Flexible Accumulation and the Labor Market -- b. Cybernetic Systems and the Labor Process -- c. The Discipline of Neoclassical Economics -- 2 Consumption Practices -- a. Product Characteristics and Use Value -- b. Image in Late-Capitalist Advertising -- c. The Consumption of Lifestyle -- d. The Semiotics of Late-Capitalist Commodity -- 3 The Hegemony of Exchangist Practices -- 4 Social Reproduction Practices -- a. Changing Household and the Politics of "The Family" -- b. Re-Racialization -- c. The Body and Bio-Technical Systems -- 5 Sexuality and Gender Construction -- a. Gender and Sexuality -- b. Sexual Lifestyle and Late-Capitalist Consumption -- c. Gender Construction in Late Capitalism -- 6 Redisciplining the Subject -- a. The Discourse of Psychiatry -- b. Changing Mental Health Practices -- c. The Bounds of Psychopathology -- Retrospect: The Problematic of the Body in Late Capitalism.

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Capitalism Capitalism -- United States Corps humain -- Aspect social Electronic books Families Families -- United States Familles -- États-Unis Human body -- Social aspects Mental health Mental health -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Rôle selon le sexe -- États-Unis Sex role Sex role -- United States Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture United States United States -- Social conditions -- 1…