Authors: Natalie Boero, Katherine Mason
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
"The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of "nature" and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area