The Body in Everyday Life (Paperback, New)

We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? How we experience our bodies is at once both intensely personal and extremely public. This book sets out to explore how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies through four central themes:
* physical and emotional bodies
* illness and disability
* gender
* ageing.
A coherent collection of empirical research, The Body in Everyday Life provides an accessible introduction to the sociology of thte body, a field previously dominated by theoretical or philosophical accounts.

eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415162009