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Consuming Bodies

Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies

Herausgeber: Hogan, Jackie; Whetstone, Sarah

Beschreibung

Consuming Bodies takes a critical perspective on body commodification both in the US and across the globe, addressing newly emerging practices and making an important contribution to social scientific understandings of the body that goes beyond the Eurocentrism of the extant scholarly literature.

Autor

Jackie Hogan is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (USA). She has authored three books, including Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood; Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America; and Roots Quest: Inside America's Genealogy Boom. Sarah Whetstone is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (USA). Her past research focused on social inequalities in American addiction treatment, punishment, stigma, and suffering in the carceral state. Her new projects explore gender, sport, creative resistance, and embodiment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781032352367
• ISBN-10: 1032352361
• Artikelnr.: 71676709