There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, both in terms of empirical and theoretical study and debate. Contributions to this book move these debates forward by considering a range of bodies as active in their own construction in social and economic processes. Authors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.

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NICK BINGHAM Lecturer in Geography, Open University KERYN CARTER Lecturer, School of Literacy and Communications Studies, Deaking University, Australia G.COATES Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leicester BOB CONNELL Australian Sociologist, Professor of Education, University of Sydney LESLIE FISHWICK Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, University of Northumbria, Newcastle ELIZABETH HALLAM Director of Cultural History, University of Aberdeen JENNY HOCKEY Social Anthopologist, Senior Lecturer, School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, Hull University SARAH L. HOLLOWAY Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University GLENNYS HOWARTH Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia RON IPHOFEN Medical Sociologist, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Wales, Bangor LEE MONAGHAN Lecturer, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University KANE RACE Research Fellow, National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New SouthWales, Australia JENNY RYAN Principal Lecturer in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University CAROL THOMAS Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences, Lancaster University GILL VALENTINE Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield KATIE J.WARD Doctoral Student, Staffordshire University MILLY WILLIAMSON Lecturer on Mass Communication and Cultural Studies, School of Sociology, University of North London.

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List of Figures and Photographs Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; N.Watson & S.Cunningham-Burley PART I: THEORETICAL REFRAMINGS OF THE BODY Bodies, Intellectuals and World Society; R.W.Connell Strong Words, Strong Minds, Strong Bodies: An Analysis of the Narrative Structure of Affirmatory Metaphors in Personal Development Programs; R.Iphofen The Body and Society: Some Reflections on the Concepts of Impairment and Disability; C.Thomas The Body in Death; E.Hallam, J.Hockey & G.Howarth PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND FASHION AT WORK ON THE BODY Incorporating Clinical Authority: A New Test for People with HIV; K.Race Vampires and the Gendered Body; M.Williamson Constructing the Balletic Body: The 'Look', The Sylph, and the Performance of Gendered Identity; K.L.Carter PART III: BODIES AT THE GYM The Bodybuilding Ethnophysiology Thesis; L.Monaghan Be What You Wanna Be: A Sense of Identity Down at the Local Gym; L.Fishwick Muscling In: Gender and Physicality in Weight Training Culture; J.Ryan PART IV: BODIES ON THE NET Crossing Cyber Boundaries: Where is the Body Located in the Online Community?; K.Ward Disembodied Cyber Co-Presence: The Art of BeingThere While Somewhere Else; G.Coates Life Around the Screen: Re-Framing Young People's Use of the Internet; N.Bingham, G.Valentine & S.Holloway Index