ABSTRACT
We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This book sets out to explore how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies, through four central themes:-
* physical and emotional bodies
* illness and disability
* gender
* ageing.
A coherent collection of such empirical research, The Body in Everyday Life provides an accessible introduction to the sociology of the body, a field previously dominated by theoretical or philosophical accounts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
The body as a chemistry experiment
Steroid use among South Wales bodybuilders
chapter Chapter 4|18 pages
‘Feeling letdown’
An exploration of an embodied sensation associated with breastfeeding
chapter Chapter 5|17 pages
Going with the flow
Some central discourses in conceptualising and articulating the embodiment of emotional states
chapter Chapter 7|18 pages
Falling out with my shadow
Lay perceptions of the body in the context of arthritis
chapter Chapter 9|17 pages
Running around like a lunatic
Colin's body and the case of male embodiment
chapter Chapter 14|18 pages
‘Growing old gracefully’ as opposed to ‘mutton dressed as lamb’
The social construction of recognising older women
chapter Chapter 15|25 pages
The male menopause
Lay accounts and the cultural reconstruction of midlife
