Elizabeth Hallam, Jenny Hockey, Glennys Howarth

Beyond the Body (eBook, ePUB)

Death and Social Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the body. The authors challenge existing theories that put the body at the centre of identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134739516
• Artikelnr.: 42724805

Autorenporträt

Hallam, Elizabeth; Hockey, Jenny; Howarth, Glennys

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction PART ONE: Social Identity and Dying 2.Self-less Bodies 3.The
Dying Body: Visual and Textual Representations 4.Silent Bodies and
Narrative Strategies PART TWO: The Dead Body as a Site of Social Identity
5.The Medical Body Contested 6.The Legal Body 7.The Social Body PART THREE:
Social Identity in the Absence of the Body 8.Married Life-after-Death 9.
Disembodied Selves 10.Matter out of Place