Interpreting the Body

<p>Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions this ambitious insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body's influence meaning and matter in society. </p><p> Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements health and medicine race sex and gender globalization colonialism education and other contexts the book's chapters call into question taken-for-granted ideas of where the self the social world and the body begin and end.</p><p> Encouraging reflection and opening new perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic mind/body divide this is an important contribution to the literature on the body.</p>