ABSTRACT
A culturally based analysis of the body, for example the work of Featherstone (1983), reflects changes in cultural landscape of late modernity from industrial capitalism to a consumer culture that encourages leisure and, we should note, tourism. Bodies then became understood as a means for selfexpression, an aspect of individual identity, and/or cyborg intersections with machines, rather than as representations of the social order. This new theorising, however, is ‘masculinist and disembodied as it ever was’ (Davis 1997: 14), reflecting back to Cartesian dualities and ideas about the separation of mind and body that have dominated Western thought.
