The Body

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

`The editors are to be commended for their inclusion of perspectives from various cultures. With the increasing globalization, internationalization, and geographic movement of individual persons an understanding of cultural differences in valuation of bodily forms is becoming a necessary requirement for persons engaged in human services. This volume is a needed addition to the literature focusing on these issues′ - Journal of Applied Rehailitation Counselling`This is a most important and interesting collection which does much to advance the sociology of the body...I congratulate the editors for a fine achievement and the editors of TCS for pioneering this new, and now much less secret, theorizing of the body and of the embodied self′ - Contemporary Sociology

• Preface - Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S TurnerRecent Developments in the Theory of the Body - Bryan S TurnerBringing Bodies Back In - Arthur FrankOn Human Beings and Their Emotions - Norbert Eliasa Process-Sociological EssayOn the Civilizing of Appetite - Stephen MennellThe Discourse of Diet - Bryan S TurnerThe Body in Consumer Culture - Mike FeatherstoneThe Midlifestyle of ′George and Lynne′ - Mike Featherstone and Mike HepworthMartial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education - Donald N LevineThe Case of AikidoBio-politics and Social Policy - Martin HewittFoucault′s Account of WelfareGenealogy and The Body - Scott LashFoucault/Deleuze/NietzscheThe Art of The Body in The Discourse of Postmodernity - Roy BoyneLove′s Labour Lost? A Sociological View - Margareta BertilssonBiographical Boundaries - Graham McCannSociology and Marilyn MonroeCarmen - or The Invention of a New Feminine Myth - Dick Pels and Aya CrebasThe Mask of Ageing - Mike Featherstone and Mike HepworthSociological Discourse and The Body - J M Berthelot