Making bodies : sexed and gendered bodies as social institutions /

This book presents a novel theoretical account of the claim that sexed and gendered bodies are socially constructed. In order to do so it critically reconstructs and combines existing theories of the embodiment of social identity (Bourdieu, Foucault, Butler) with the constructionist account of the S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rafanell, Irene (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online resource)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Series:	Palgrave studies in relational sociology,
Subjects:	Human body (Philosophy) Group identity. Knowledge, Sociology of. Corps humain (Philosophie) Identité collective. Sociologie de la connaissance. group identity. sociology of knowledge. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction. - Chapter 2: Sociology and the Body
Chapter 3: Bourdieu's Theory of Practice
Chapter 4: The Performative Theory of Social Institutions
Chapter 5: Reassessing Bourdieu's Contribution to the Debate on the Social Construction of the Body
Chapter 6: Discursive Feminism Evaluating Bourdieu. - Chapter 7: Sex Habitus as an Artificial Kind
Chapter 8: Identifying Power
Chapter 9: Conclusions.