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The body in late-capitalist USA / Donald M. Lowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowe, Donald M.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-Contemporary Interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--United States.
- Capitalism.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Families--United States.
- Families.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- Mental health--United States.
- Mental health.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Other Title:
- Body in late-capitalist United States of America
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Body in Late-Capitalist USA, Donald M. Lowe explores the varied social practices that code and construct the body. Arguing that our bodily lives are shaped by a complex of daily and ongoing practices-how we work, what we buy and consume-Lowe contends that as a result of the commodification of these and other social practices in the late-twentieth century, what we often understand to be the needs of the body are in fact means for capital accumulation.Moving beyond studies of representations and images of the body, Lowe focuses on the intersection of body practices, language, and the Soci
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612904349
- 9781282904347
- 1282904345
- 9780822381969
- 0822381966
- OCLC:
- 850214875
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