书目名称 | Making Bodies |
副标题 | Sexed and Gendered B |
编辑 | Irene Rafanell |
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概述 | Realigns and brings together theoretical arguments from a variety of areas within sociology/social theory.Offers an innovative synthesis of existing ideas about the influences of collective social lif |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology |
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描述 | .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 Sociology of Knowledge (Strong Programme). This allows the author to develop a detailed conceptual apparatus which helps to analyse the nature of sexed and gendered bodies as social institutions. This book argues for a view of the body as an ‘artificial kind’ of entity which is the effect of contingent and localized practices and that incorporates both social and natural determinants. In doing so, the book reformulates key sociological dichotomies such as nature/society; structure/agency and domination/resistance, critically analysing different structuralist positions and advancing an ‘intrinsic’ structuralist model which foregrounds the importance of human relations in the constitution of social phenomena. This theoretical investigation has important methodological implications for empirical research into the formation of sex and gender identities and practices, enabling a more objectiv |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
关键词 | relational sociology; Performativity; Strong Program; Theories of Power; Sociology of the Body; Foucault; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45477-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-45479-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-45477-6Series ISSN 2946-4110 Series E-ISSN 2946-4129 |
issn_series | 2946-4110 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023 |