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Interpreting the body : between meaning and matter / edited by Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Interpretive lenses in sociology.
- Interpretive lenses in sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Body image--Social aspects.
- Body image.
- 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
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