Interpreting the body : between meaning and matter / edited by Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Champagne, Anne Marie, editor.
• Friedman, Asia, editor.

Series:

• Interpretive lenses in sociology.
• Interpretive lenses in sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Body image--Social aspects.
• Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Written by leading social scientists, this ambitious volume asks what individuals' 'handling' of bodies reveal about inequality, social order and cultural change in societies.

Contents:

• Friont Cover
• Series page
• Interpreting The Body: Between Meaning and Matter
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Series Editors' Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology-On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• References
• 1 Toward a Strong Cultural Sociology of the Body and Embodiment
• Culture and the body: modern, postmodern, and contemporary themes
• The "absent presence" of culture and the body in early sociology
• Interpreting modernity: the postmodern crisis of meaning and cultural thematization of materiality and the body
• Toward a strong cultural sociology of the body and embodiment
• The interpretive methodology of a strong cultural sociology of the body and embodiment
• Cultural codes and the relative autonomy of culture
• The hermeneutic reconstruction of meaning
• Maximal interpretation: theory, description, and explanation
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 2 Thinking the Molecular
• Hard and soft molecules
• The romance of the molecular
• Radical asymmetry
• 3 Interpreting Africa's Seselelãme
• Seselelãme in African everyday terms and in academic parlance
• Seselelãme and globalization
• Ewe speakers interpret seselelãme
• Psychology, possessive individualism, and seselelãme's intersubjectivity
• Concluding remarks
• 4 Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in Nervous Conditions
• Phenomenology of Blackness
• Gendering the colonial body
• Literature as organic theory
• Setting the scene: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
• A colonial education
• Regulating "good native girls"
• Sick bodies: hunger, longing, and wasting away
• Ambivalence and arrival
• An end to nervous conditions?
• Note.
• References
• 5 Reinterpreting Male Bodies and Health in Crisis Times: From "Obesity" to Bigger Matters
• The "problem" of men's and boys' weight/fatness: things are not what they seem
• Structured health inequalities: insights from medical sociology and men's health
• Concluding reflections
• Acknowledgments
• 6 Beauty, Breasts, and Meaning after Mastectomy
• The meaning of beauty in breast cancer recovery
• Methods
• Reinterpreting beauty
• Form and function
• Symmetry: beauty or vanity?
• Scars as beautiful
• Supports for reinterpreting beauty
• Family interactions
• Proximity to queerness
• 7 "You Are Not the Body": (Re)Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga
• Making sense of embodied religious practices
• Data and methods
• Downplaying the physical: vocabularies of motive and transcendent goals
• The body as object: metaphor, analogy, and practical enactment
• Facilitating embodied experiences: verbal instruction in practice
• Reflections and conclusions
• 8 Black Girls' Bodies and Belonging in the Classroom
• Misogynoir and anti-Black discursive frameworks
• Symbolic interactionism and bodies: a discursive-interactionist frame
• The mis/reading of Black girls' bodies in schools
• Black talk, backtalk, and sass
• Quiet Black girls and silence as resolve
• Loud, laughing Black girls
• Dress code violations when wearing and styling Black girlhood
• 9 Embodied Vulnerability and Sensemaking with Solidarity Activists
• Making sense of embodied vulnerability
• Embodied vulnerability and the shape of research
• Interpreting labors
• Interpreting raced and gendered bodies
• 10 Our Bodies, Our Disciplines, Our Selves
• Note
• References.
• Index.

Notes:

• Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jan 2024).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-5292-1160-3
• 1-5292-1158-1

OCLC:

1390205892