ABSTRACT
It has become almost a truism in sociology that the body has been neglected and recently ‘rediscovered’; for example, through the work of Turner (1984). Frank (1991) attributes the growth of interest in the body to the influence of feminist theories, Foucault, and debates on modernity/postmodernity. As Scott and Morgan (1993:19) state:
The body and its close companion, the emotions, are after all the very matter of everyday experience. In dealing with the body and the emotions we are dealing with that which is closest to us, as researchers or as readers, with our very sense of being in the world.
