Preface - Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S Turner
Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body - Bryan S Turner
Bringing Bodies Back In - Arthur Frank
On Human Beings and Their Emotions - Norbert Elias
a Process-Sociological Essay
On the Civilizing of Appetite - Stephen Mennell
The Discourse of Diet - Bryan S Turner
The Body in Consumer Culture - Mike Featherstone
The Midlifestyle of ¿George and Lynne¿ - Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth
Martial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education - Donald N Levine
The Case of Aikido
Bio-politics and Social Policy - Martin Hewitt
Foucault¿s Account of Welfare
Genealogy and The Body - Scott Lash
Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche
The Art of The Body in The Discourse of Postmodernity - Roy Boyne
Love¿s Labour Lost? A Sociological View - Margareta Bertilsson
Biographical Boundaries - Graham McCann
Sociology and Marilyn Monroe
Carmen - or The Invention of a New Feminine Myth - Dick Pels and Aya Crebas
The Mask of Ageing - Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth
Sociological Discourse and The Body - J M Berthelot

This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies.