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  1. Modernity/monstrosity: Eating Freaks (Germany, c. 1700).Tom Cheesman - 1996 - Body and Society 2 (3):1-31.
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  • Women's Boxing and Related Activities: Introducing Images and Meanings.Jennifer Hargreaves - 1997 - Body and Society 3 (4):33-49.
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  • Of Mammon Clothed Divinely: The Profanization of Sacred Dress.William J. F. Keenan - 1999 - Body and Society 5 (1):73-92.
    This article addresses the cultural commodification of the dress sign of the sacred body from contexts of `God' to its recontextualization within contexts of consumer capitalism or `Mammon'. The concept of religious dress `commodification' is employed heuristically to help make sociological sense of the seepage of dress sacra from religious contexts of origin to secular contexts of use. While other readings of the late modern career of the religious dress `text' are indeed possible, the suggestion here is that it can (...)
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  • Body Modification: An Introduction.Mike Featherstone - 1999 - Body and Society 5 (2-3):1-13.
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  • Modern Primitivism': Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation.Christian Klesse - 1999 - Body and Society 5 (2-3):15-38.
    This article focuses on the philosophy underpinning the non-mainstream body modification practices of `Modern Primitives'. This subculture seeks inspiration in the body modification techniques and bodily rituals of so-called `primitive societies'. Establishing their prioritization of body, sexuality, community and spirituality as analytical links, the author shows that these self-perceived radical opponents of Western modernity nonetheless remain captured in its foundational discursive assumptions. The author argues that the movement's enthusiastic turn towards `primitivism' represents a particular identity strategy within the late modern (...)
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  • 'A dubious equality': Men, women and cosmetic surgery.Kathy Davis - 2002 - Body and Society 8 (1):49-65.
    Until recently, cosmetic surgery was associated almost exclusively with women. However, men appear to be altering their appearance in increasing numbers. Both the media and the medical profession have seized upon this phenomenon as just one more example of the growing equality between the sexes, arguing that it is just a matter of time before men are having just as much cosmetic surgery as women. In this article, I take issue with the notion of the `new' sexual equality in the (...)
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  • Forever Functional: Sexual Fitness and the Ageing Male Body.Barbara L. Marshall & Stephen Katz - 2002 - Body and Society 8 (4):43-70.
    Historically, male sexual fitness was framed by a patriarchal politics of life centred on regeneration, population and nation. In the later 20th century, as successful ageing became promoted by the lifestyle practices of an idealized healthy and active senior citizenry, traditional gerontocratic power over the sexual risks of youth gave way to a medical sexology concerned with sexual functionality across the lifecourse; in particular, erectility. Recently, erectile dysfunction has expanded to become a population-wide health problem with increasingly refined diagnoses based (...)
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  • (1 other version)An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and its Problematic Nature.Greg Kennedy - 2007 - State University of New York Press.
    A philosophical exploration of the problematic nature of the disposable.
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  • The Midlifestyle of 'George and Lynne': Notes on a Popular Strip.Mike Featherstone & Mike Hepworth - 1983 - Theory, Culture and Society 1 (3):85-92.
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  • Bio-Politics and Social Policy: Foucault's Account of Welfare.Martin Hewitt - 1983 - Theory, Culture and Society 2 (1):67-84.
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  • Lifestyle and Consumer Culture.Mike Featherstone - 1987 - Theory, Culture and Society 4 (1):55-70.
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  • Marketing Fragrances: Advertising and the Production of Commodity Signs.Robert Goldman - 1987 - Theory, Culture and Society 4 (4):691-725.
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  • Automobilities.Mike Featherstone - 2004 - Theory, Culture and Society 21 (4-5):1-24.
    This wide-ranging introduction to the special issue on Automobilities examines various dimensions of the automobile system and car cultures. In its broadest sense we can think of many automobilities - modes of autonomous, self-directed movement. It can be argued that there are many different car cultures and autoscapes which operate around the world, which cannot be seen as making driving (including freeways, motorways and autobahns) a uniform experience of movement in a controlled 'no-place' space. Yet, there clearly is an increasingly (...)
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  • A Well Balanced Life Based on 'The Joy of Effort': Olympic Hype or a Meaningful Ideal?Sigmund Loland - 2012 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 6 (2):155-165.
    A key goal in the Olympic value system of Olympism is the all-round cultivation of the individual. According to its so-called ?fundamental principles?, Olympism is a ?philosophy of life? with ideals of ?exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will, and mind? and creating ?a way of life based on the joy of effort?. These goals are to be reached by blending sport with culture and education. Olympism is often criticised for idealism and lack of impact (...)
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  • Hippocratic medicine and the greek body image.Scott M. DeHart - 1999 - Perspectives on Science 7 (3):349-382.
    : This study investigates the changes in the body image that occurred in the crucial cultural transformations that took place at the outset of Western rational thought in the transition from Archaic age to Classical age Greece. It does so from the delimited perspective that is offered by the group of medical writings known as the Hippocratic Corpus (specifically works on prognostics, dietetics, and surgery) that were contemporary with the early Classical age, but it also suggests parallel changes occurring in (...)
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  • Sport et masculinités.Jim McKay & Suzanne Laberge - 2006 - Clio 23:239-267.
    Cet article examine le régime sexuel du sport en se fondant sur des recherches récentes portant sur les hommes et les masculinités. Malgré le caractère tenace des liens entre les hommes, les masculinités et le sport, nous croyons que le sport constitue un contexte idéal pour « étudier par le haut », comme le propose Connell (1990), l'ordre hiérarchique de genre. Cinq secteurs de recherche sont abordés : les organisations sportives, les corps et le modèle de « puissance et performance (...)
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  • The Elusory Body and Social Constructionist Theory.Alan Radley - 1995 - Body and Society 1 (2):3-23.
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  • The Adolescent `Unfinished Body', Reflexivity and HIV/aids Risk.Deborah Lupton & John Tulloch - 1998 - Body and Society 4 (2):19-34.
    School-based sexuality education is a type of sexology directed at specific bodies: `unfinished' adolescent bodies in the process of becoming sexual bodies. This article explores notions of the adolescent `unfinished' body in the context of HIV/aids education for young people. Drawing on empirical research carried out in Australian secondary schools, we look at the concepts of the project of the self and reflexivity as they are articulated by young people in their evaluation of HIV/aids education. The open character of self (...)
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  • Creating `The Perfect Body': A Variable Project.Lee Monaghan - 1999 - Body and Society 5 (2-3):267-290.
    Using qualitative data, this article makes a substantive and formal contribution to the growing academic literature on bodybuilding and the sociology of the body. Placing a question mark against existing knowledge claims, it argues theories ascribing bodybuilding to antecedent predispositions are not sufficient when accounting for the ongoing variable project of creating `the perfect body'. It is asserted that physique bodybuilding (as opposed to weight-training) in the late 1990s could be independent of the `masculinist imagery' of `the muscular body' alongside (...)
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  • Cosmopolitan Bodies: Fit to Travel and Travelling to Fit.Jennie Germann Molz - 2006 - Body and Society 12 (3):1-21.
    This article aims to respond to recent calls for more material accounts of cosmopolitanism by considering the way the cosmopolitan sensibilities of flexibility, adaptability, tolerance and openness to difference are literally embodied by a specific group of mobile subjects. Drawing on a study of round-the-world travellers and the 'body stories' they publish in their online travelogues, this article explores the various ways travellers embody cosmopolitanism through the concept of 'fit'. Fit refers both to the physical condition required for long-haul travel (...)
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  • Love and Eroticism.Mike Featherstone - 1998 - Theory, Culture and Society 15 (3-4):1-18.
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  • The pragmatic-semiotic construction of male identities in contemporary advertising of male grooming products.Mª Milagros Del Saz-Rubio - 2019 - Discourse and Communication 13 (2):192-227.
    This article aims to unveil how male identities are constructed in a corpus of male toiletry TV ads through a pragmatic and multimodal analysis of a set of implicit assumptions conveyed about the male participants in the ads. The validity of these assumptions is first empirically tested with a group of 10 male informants and then those implied meanings are bundled into thematic cores for their qualitative and quantitative description. Findings reveal that these ads still rely on stereotypical constructs and (...)
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  • The Social Life of Measures: Conceptualizing Measure–Value Environments.Andrea Mubi Brighenti - 2018 - Theory, Culture and Society 35 (1):23-44.
    Issues of measure and measurement, and their relation to value and values, are of concern in several major threads in contemporary social theory and social research. In this article, the notion of ‘measure–value environments’ is introduced as a theoretical lens through which the life of measures can be better understood. A number of points are made which represent both a continuation and a slight change in emphasis vis-à-vis the existing scholarship. First, it is argued that the relation between measure and (...)
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  • Interaction Order and Beyond: A Field Analysis of Body Culture Within Fitness Gyms.Roberta Sassatelli - 1999 - Body and Society 5 (2-3):227-248.
    This article addresses keep-fit culture not as a collection of commercial images or as the product of broader cultural values, but as a set of situated body practices, that is practices taking place within specific institutions where these images and values are reinterpreted in locally prescribed ways and, to some extent, filtered. Relying on fieldwork, fitness gyms are revealed to be experienced as places with their own rules, pleasures and identity games. The ideal of the fit body is shown to (...)
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  • Whose Body Matters? Feminist Sociology and the Corporeal Turn in Sociology and Feminism.Anne Witz - 2000 - Body and Society 6 (2):1-24.
    This article proposes that the urgent task for feminist sociology is to recuperate those lost or residual `body matters' which lurk, unattended to, on the sidelines of the social. Feminist sociology must carefully negotiate the complex space between sociality and corporeality. The new feminist philosophies of the body tend sometimes to grate against this project by valorizing the body but de-valorizing gender. The new sociology of the body is recuperating the body within sociology, but pays insufficient attention to the ways (...)
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  • Beyond the Womb and the Tomb: Identity, (Dis)embodiment and the Life Course.Jenny Hockey & Janet Draper - 2005 - Body and Society 11 (2):41-57.
    Grounded in the authors’ theoretical and ethnographic work on pregnancy and social life after death, this article explores the ways in which the body is involved in processes of identification. With a focus on the embodied nature of social identity, the article nonetheless problematizes a model of the life course that begins at the moments of birth and ends at death. Instead, it offers a more extended temporal perspective and examines other ways in which identity may be claimed, for example, (...)
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  • Consumer Culture: an Introduction.Mike Featherstone - 1983 - Theory, Culture and Society 1 (3):4-9.
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  • Bringing Bodies Back in: A Decade Review.Arthur W. Frank - 1990 - Theory, Culture and Society 7 (1):131-162.
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  • The Material Body, Social Processes and Emotion: `Techniques of the Body' Revisited.Margot L. Lyon - 1997 - Body and Society 3 (1):83-101.
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  • Consumer Culture and Postmodernism.Prasidh Raj Singh - 2011 - Postmodern Openings 2 (5):55-88.
    Postmodernism is a variety of meanings and definitions, is used to refer to many aspects of social life from musical forms and styles, literature and fine art through to philosophy, history and especially the mass media and consumer culture. Post modernism is a slippery term that is used by writers to refer to several different things. Featherstone points out the term has been used to refer to new developments in intellectual and cultural theory. The suggestion that our subjective experience of (...)
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  • Unruly Bodies, Unquiet Minds.Andrew Tudor - 1995 - Body and Society 1 (1):25-41.
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  • Frozen Bodies: Disclosing Whiteness in Häagen-Dazs Advertising.Anoop Nayak - 1997 - Body and Society 3 (3):51-71.
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  • The Social Significance of Snooker: Sports-Games in the Age of Television.Mike Bury - 1986 - Theory, Culture and Society 3 (2):49-62.
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  • Gender shows: First-time mothers and embodied selves.Lucy Bailey - 2001 - Gender and Society 15 (1):110-129.
    This article draws on data from a study of the transition to motherhood to contribute to feminist theorizing of embodiment. Three bodily aspects of women's gendered sense of self are identified as undergoing possible change during this period—sensuality, shape, and space. The work of Arthur Frank is drawn on to theorize shifts in women's experience of these dimensions, and the author shows how the white, middle-class women studied could use such discourses around the body as resources in renegotiating their social (...)
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  • Cultures of Technological Embodiment: An Introduction.Roger Burrows & Mike Featherstone - 1995 - Body and Society 1 (3-4):1-19.
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  • Reflections on the Development of Cultural Studies in Japan.Tomoko Tamari - 2006 - Theory, Culture and Society 23 (7-8):293-304.
    Although Japan had its own distinctive ‘pre-history’ of cultural studies, which produced some excellent research on popular culture, which can be traced back to the 1920s, the current state of cultural studies has been criticized by conventional mainstream academics; whereas the younger generation has been attracted by cultural studies as a new academic trend. An important new development in cultural studies in Japan is Cultural Typhoon. This new movement seeks to avoid institutionalization and create an alternative academic public sphere alongside (...)
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  • Corpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins: The Body and Cyberpunk.Kevin Mccarron - 1995 - Body and Society 1 (3-4):261-273.
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  • Tijelo i tekst: genealogija praksi razdvajanja.Dušan Ristić & Dušan Marinković - 2015 - Filozofska Istrazivanja 35 (3):435-453.
    U radu identificiramo transformacije od individualizacije i lokalizacije praksi nad konkretnom tjelesnošću do zbirnih političkih praksi nad tijelom-populacijom. Na taj način otvaramo genealoški, a ne historicistički pristup problemu erozije paleosimbolike i pojave diskurzivnosti tijela kroz diskontinuitet tijela i teksta. U procesima sveopće društvene deritualizacije, a ponajprije javne komunikacije, koja označava racionalizaciju zapadnjačkog društva, krajem 18. stoljeća pojavile su se nove forme iskaza: medicinski, psihijatrijski, pravni, pedagoški, psihološki, koji se grupiraju u tekst/znanje/moć. Oslanjajući se na analitiku moći Michela Foucaulta, u radu (...)
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  • About the right to be ill.Jacek Halasz - 2018 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 21 (1):113-123.
    The article raises the issue of ‘the right to be ill’, formulated by Tadeusz Kielanowski, a Polish physician and humanist. According to him, the right to health should be supplemented by the principle which would serve the protection of people with diseases or disabilities. One-sided interpretation of ‘the right to health’ may result in various forms of intolerance and discrimination. This paper presents what dangers Kielanowski recognized and explains why his approach was considered to be a novelty; what the idea (...)
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  • Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity.Paul Sweetman - 1999 - Body and Society 5 (2-3):51-76.
    Recent years have seen a considerable resurgence in the popularity of tattooing and piercing, a development that some have dismissed as a fashionable trend. Others have argued that the relative permanence of such forms of body modification militates against their full absorption into the fashion system. Drawing on interviews with a variety of body modifiers, the article examines this debate, and notes that certain tattooees and piercees appear, in some respects, to regard their tattoos and piercings as decorative accessories. At (...)
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  • Gendered discourses on the ‘problem’ of ageing: consumerized solutions.Justine Coupland - 2007 - Discourse and Communication 1 (1):37-61.
    Contemporary consumer culture sees the body as the crucial indicator of the self and apparent bodily ageing as problematic. All bodies age, but how is evidence of ageing culturally interpreted? This article develops a critical-pragmatic analysis of consumerized body discourses, with particular focus on the semiotics of the visibly ageing face, in the context of lifestyle magazine features and advertisements on skin care. Such texts work to equate ageing with the look of ageing, problematize ageing appearance, and offer marketized solutions (...)
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  • The exercise pill: should we replace exercise with pharmaceutical means?Sigmund Loland - 2017 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 11 (1):63-74.
    New physiological and pharmacological research points to the possibility of a pill that produces the complete physiological effects of exercise. Is replacement of exercise with a pill a good idea? And if so, under what circumstances? To explore answers, I have examined three approaches to the understanding exercise. From a dualist point of view, exercise is explained mechanistically in terms of physiological cause and effect relationships. From this perspective, and in particular for reluctant exercisers, there seems to be no strong (...)
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  • (1 other version)Mapping Reflexive Body Techniques: On Body Modification and Maintenance.Nick Crossley - 2005 - Body and Society 11 (1):1-35.
    This article aims to do two things. The first of these is to introduce the concept of reflexive body techniques into the debate on body modification/maintenance. The value of the concept in relation to this debate, in part, is that it ensures that we conceive of the body as both a subject and an object, modifier and modified, and that we thereby avoid the trap of conceptualizing modification in dualistic (mind/body or body/society) terms. Second, the article seeks to explore the (...)
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  • Gender in the Prozac Nation: Popular Discourse and Productive Femininity.Nena F. Stracuzzi & Linda M. Blum - 2004 - Gender and Society 18 (3):269-286.
    Since Prozac emerged on the market at the end of 1987, there has been a dramatic increase in antidepressant use and in its discussion by popular media. Yet there has been little analysis of the gendered character of this phenomenon despite feminist traditions scrutinizing the medical control of women’s bodies. The authors begin to fill this gap through a detailed content analysis of the 83 major articles on Prozac and its “chemical cousins” appearing in large-circulation periodicals in Prozac’s first 12 (...)
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  • Where's the Virtue? Where's the Grace? A Discussion of the Social Production of Gender Relations in and through Sport.Jennifer A. Hargreaves - 1986 - Theory, Culture and Society 3 (1):109-121.
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  • Boxers, Briefs or Bras? Bodies, Gender and Change in the Boxing Gym.Elise Paradis - 2012 - Body and Society 18 (2):82-109.
    In this ethnography of Full Contact, a San Francisco Bay Area boxing gym, I use Bourdieu’s theory of practice to illustrate how ‘rules of the game’ shape people’s perceptions, interactions and positions (capital). First, I show how the unwritten, unspoken rules of boxing as a field (its doxa) impact readings of bodies and bodily capital, readings that then have an impact on micro-level interactions and hierarchies at Full Contact. Second, I show the micro-level consequences of hysteresis – delays in the (...)
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  • Constructing the Menopausal Body: The Discourses on Hormone Replacement Therapy.Deborah Lupton - 1996 - Body and Society 2 (1):91-97.
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  • Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body.Laura Mamo & Jennifer R. Fishman - 2001 - Body and Society 7 (4):13-35.
    New pharmacological therapies, often dubbed `lifestyle drugs', demonstrate the enactment of yet another interface between technologies and bodies that promises a re-fashioning of the body with transformative, life-enhancing results. This article analyzes the emergence of one lifestyle drug, Viagra, from a technoscience studies perspective, conceptualizing Viagra as a new medical technology of the body. Through an analysis of promotional materials for Viagra, we argue that this pharmaceutical device performs ideological work through its discursive scripts that serves to reinforce and augment (...)
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  • Ubiquitous Media.Mike Featherstone - 2009 - Theory, Culture and Society 26 (2-3):1-22.
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  • Obesity Epidemic Entrepreneurs: Types, Practices and Interests.Gary Prtichard, Robert Hollands & Lee F. Monaghan - 2010 - Body and Society 16 (2):37-71.
    This article explores the enterprising act of socially constructing fatness, or overweight and obesity, as an individual and collective problem. We argue that this process is complex and hence draw liberally on and extend an eclectic range of scholarship (e.g. the sociology of the body, moral panic theory, critical weight studies) when presenting a typology of obesity epidemic entrepreneurs, that is, those who actively make fatness into a correctable health problem. Using a variety of data, we consider six main ideal (...)
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