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Distinctions in the Flesh - Social Class and the Embodiment of Inequality (Hardcover)
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Distinctions in the Flesh - Social Class and the Embodiment of Inequality (Hardcover)
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The past decades have witnessed a surge of sociological interest in
the body. From the focal point of aesthetic investment, political
regulation and moral anxiety, to a means of redefining traditional
conceptions of agency and identity, the body has been cast in a
wide variety of sociological roles. However, there is one topic
that proves conspicuously absent from this burgeoning literature on
the body, namely its role in the everyday (re)production of
class-boundaries. Distinctions in the Flesh aims to fill that void
by showing that the way individuals perceive, use and manage their
bodies is fundamentally intertwined with their social position and
trajectory. Drawing on a wide array of survey-data - from
food-preferences to sporting-practices and from weight-concern to
tastes in clothing - this book shows how bodies not only function
as key markers of class-differences, but also help to naturalize
and legitimize such differences. Along the way, it scrutinizes
popular notions like the 'obesity epidemic', questions the role of
'the media' in shaping the way people judge their bodies and sheds
doubt on sociological narratives that cast the body as a malleable
object that is increasingly open to individual control and
reflexive management. This book will be of interest to scholars of
class, lifestyle and identity, but also to social epidemiologists,
health professionals and anyone interested in the way that social
inequalities become, quite literally, inscribed in the body.
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