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Where are we at with studies of Body & Society? What are the key accomplishments in the field? This book provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of work in this area tdate Featuring a series of studies on sport, transgenderism, migration, illness, survival and belief, it illuminates the relationship between bodily change and action Chris Shillings book provides an unrivalled survey of theory and empirical research and explores the hithertneglected tradition of American body studies Wide in scope, systematic and incisive the book represents a landmark addition tthe field of studies in body and societyIn this new book, Chris Shilling once again seeks tredefine the parameters of the sociology of the body Drawing on the ideas of pragmatism and the social research of the Chicagschool, Shilling analyses many of the contemporary crises and transitions that challenge embodied habit and character, concluding that in many cases embodied individuals find the creative capacity for transcendence of their current social and material contexts This is essential reading for all those in search of a sophisticated theoretical and methodological basis for the study of embodied action that resists a simplistic inverted Cartesianism - Dr Ian Burkitt, University of Bradford
