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Cover The Body : Social Process and Cultural title: Theory Theory, Culture & Society (Unnumbered) author: Featherstone, Mike. publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. isbn10 | asin: 0803984138 print isbn13: 9780803984134 ebook isbn13: 9780585381572 language: English subject Body, Human--Social aspects. publication date: 1991 lcc: HM110.B66 1991eb ddc: 306.4 subject: Body, Human--Social aspects. Page i THE BODY Page ii Theory, Culture & Society Theory, Culture & Society caters for the resurgence of interest in culture within contemporary social science and the humanities. Building on the heritage of classical social theory, the book series examines ways in which this tradition has been reshaped by a new generation of theorists. It will also publish theoretically informed analyses of everyday life, popular culture, and new intellectual movements. EDITOR: Mike Featherstone, Teesside Polytechnic SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Roy Boyne, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen Scott Lash, University of Lancaster Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh Bryan S. Turner, University of Essex Also in this series Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture Revised edition Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron The Tourist Gaze Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies John Urry Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity edited by Bryan S. Turner Global Culture Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity edited by Mike Featherstone Consumer Culture and Postmodernism Mike Featherstone Page iii THE BODY Social Process and Cultural Theory edited by MIKE FEATHERSTONE MIKE HEPWORTH BRYAN S.TURNER SAGE PUBLICATIONS London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi Page iv © editorial arrangement Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S. Turner 1991 © Chapter 1 Bryan S. Turner 1991 © Chapter 2 Arthur W. Frank 1991 © Chapter 3 Norbert Elias 1987 © Chapter 4 Stephen Mennell 1987 © Chapter 5 Bryan S. Turner 1982 © Chapter 6 Mike Featherstone 1982 © Chapter 7 Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth 1983 © Chapter 8 Donald Levine 1991 © Chapter 9 Martin Hewitt 1983 © Chapter 10 Scott Lash 1984 © Chapter 11 Roy Boyne 1988 © Chapter 12 Margareta Bertilsson 1986 © Chapter 13 Graham McCann 1987 © Chapter 14 Dick Pels and Aya Créas 1988 © Chapter 15 Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth 1988 © Chapter 16 J.M. Berthelot 1986 First published 1991 Reprinted 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash—I New Delhi 110 048 Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society, Department of Administrative and Social Studies, Teesside Polytechnic British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The body: social process and cultural theory.—(Theory, culture & society). 1. Man. Body—Sociological perspectives I. Feathersione, Mike II. Hepworth, Mike III. Turner, Bryan S. (Bryan Stanley) 1945- IV. Series 304 ISBN 0-8039-8412-X ISBN 0-8039-8413-8 pbk Library of Congress catalog card number 90-53534 Typeset by Mayhew Typesetting, Bristol, Great Britain Printed in Great Britain by Redwood Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire Page v CONTENTS Contributors vii Preface viii 1.Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body 1 Bryan S. Turner 2.For a Sociology of the Body: an Analytical Review 36 Arthur W. Frank 3.On Human Beings and their Emotions: a Process-Sociological Essay 103 Norbert Elias 4.On the Civilizing of Appetite 126 Stephen Mennell 5.The Discourse of Diet 157 Bryan S. Turner 6.The Body in Consumer Culture 170 Mike Featherstone 7.The Midlifestyle of ‘George and Lynne’: Notes on a Popular Strip 197 Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth 8.Martial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education: the Case of Aikido 209 Donald N. Levine 9.Bio-politics and Social Policy: Foucault's Account of Welfare 225 Martin Hewitt Page vi 10. Genealogy and the Body: Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche 256 Scott Lash 11. The Art of the Body in the Discourse of Postmodernity 281 Roy Boyne 12. Love's Labour Lost? A Sociological View 297 Margareta Bertilsson 13. Biographical Boundaries: Sociology and Marilyn Monroe 325 Graham McCann 14. Carmen — or The Invention of a New Feminine Myth 339 Dick Pels and Aya Crébas 15. The Mask of Ageing and the Postmodern Life Course 371 Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth 16. Sociological Discourse and the Body 390 J.M. Berthelot Index 405 Page vii CONTRIBUTORS J.M. Berthelot, Department of Sociology, University of Toulouse le Mirail, Toulouse, France. Margareta Bertilsson, Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Box 114, S-22100, Lund, Sweden. Roy Boyne, Faculty of Community & Social Studies, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, Northumberland Building, Northumberland Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NEI 8ST. Aya Crébas, Research Associate, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vakgroep, Sociologie en Geschiedenis, Oude Hoogstraat 24, 1012 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Norbert Elias lived in the Netherlands until his death in 1990. Mike Featherstone, Department of Administrative & Social Studies, Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS1 3BA. Arthur W. Frank, Department of Sociology, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N IN4. Mike Hepworth, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, Edward Wright Building, Aberdeen AB9 2TY. Martin Hewitt, School of Health and Human Sciences, Hatfield Polytechnic, College Lane, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB. Scott Lash, Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, Cartmel College, Bailrigg, Lancaster LAI 4YL. Donald N. Levine, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. Graham McCann, King's College, Cambridge. Stephen Mennell, Department of Sociology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Dick Pels, Sociologisch Institut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vakgroep, Sociologie en Geschiedenis, Oude Hoogstraat 24, 1012 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Bryan S. Turner, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ. Page viii PREFACE The publication of this collection of papers is an indication of the growing interest in the sociology of the body. The majority of the papers were published in Theory, Culture & Society between 1982 and 1990. Three of the papers — those by Bryan Turner ‘Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body’, Arthur W. Frank ‘For a Sociology of the Body’ and Donald Levine ‘Martial Arts as a Resource for Liberal Education’ — have not been previously published. ‘The Mask of Ageing’ by Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth is an expanded version of ‘Ageing and Old Age’ which was first published in 1989. From its very first issue Theory, Culture & Society has been concerned to foster interest in the Sociology of the Body as one of the crucial instances of the complex interrelations of nature, culture and society. It is also important to stress that these chapters provide an excellent illustration of the editorial policy of the journal, namely to encourage a diversity of theoretical perspectives. Here we can refer to the various influences of Foucault, Nietzsche, Elias, Douglas, Horkheimer and Adorno, Mauss, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Goffman and feminist theorists. These theoretical perspectives are selectively drawn upon to illuminate representations of the body in a (wide) range of contexts which include: the expression of the emotions, romantic love, dietary practices, consumer-culture images of youth, fitness and beauty, martial arts, social welfare, modernism, postmodernism and old age, media images of women, and sexuality. We would not claim that this list is exhaustive; only that it provides some important representations of the contemporary sociological interest in the human body. It is our main aim in this book to put these materials in a form which is accessible to the growing number of students and teachers who wish to study the sociology of the human body and it is the hope of the editors that both sociologists and those with broader social science and humanities backgrounds will find this material of relevance and interest. In conclusion, the editors are pleased to express their gratitude to all the TCS editorial board members and associates who have helped in numerous ways with this project. We would also like to express our gratitude to Stephen Barr of Sage Publications for his unfailing support and encouragement. Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S. Turner Skelton Page 1 1 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE THEORY OF THE BODY Bryan S. Turner Anthropology and the Body In contrast to sociology, the human body has been accorded a place of central importance in anthropology since the nineteenth century. There are at least four reasons which explain the prominence of the body in anthropology. The first is the development of philosophical anthropology, and the issue of the body in relation to an ontology of Man, (the word ‘Man’ is deliberately employed here to indicate a gendered understanding of humanity, and the probability that classical social science was itself gendered or indeed, to invent a verb, bodied). Historically speaking, anthropology has been more inclined to pose questions about the universal essence of humanity, because anthropology in the context of European colonialism