The Body in Everyday Life

We all have a body but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This booksets out to explore how ordinary women men and children talk about theirbodies thro... » 

We all have a body but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This booksets out to explore how ordinary women men and children talk about theirbodies through four central themes physical and emotional bodies illness and disability gender ageing. A coherent collection of suchempirical research The Body in Everyday Life provides an accessibleintroduction to the sociology of the body a field previously dominated bytheoretical or philosophical accounts. «