The Body Books

New and Published Books

1. Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies

   Edited by Mona Livholts

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by some of the leading scholars in their fields, this edited collection focuses on the emergence of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
2. Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment

   Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts

   By Dale C. Spencer

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it...

   Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. ‘Manufactured’ Masculinity

   Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

   By J. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school...

   Published October 26th 2011 by Routledge
4. Depression

   Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities

   By Bradley Lewis

   Series: The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture

   We live in an era of depression, a condition that causes extensive suffering for individuals and families and saps our collective productivity. Yet there remains considerable confusion about how to understand depression. Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities looks at the varied...

   Published October 6th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture

   A Sociology of the Senses

   By Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gottschalk

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical,...

   Published August 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

   Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires

   the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians

   By Richard Sugg

   Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, when kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribed, swallowed or wore human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin against epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague,...

   Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge
8. Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece

   Edited by Eleni Fournaraki, Zinon Papakonstantinou

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Pedagogy and Human Movement

   Theory, Practice, Research

   By Richard Tinning

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Across the full range of human movement studies and their many sub-disciplines, established institutional practices and forms of pedagogy are used to (re)produce valued knowledge about human movement. Pedagogy and Human Movement explores this pedagogy in detail to reveal its applications and...

   Published April 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Outsourcing the Womb

    Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market

    By France Winddance Twine

    Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

    A quiet revolution has been taking place during the past three decades. The way that children enter families has changed radically among upper middle class families. In the 1980s infertility increasing became defined as a medical problem that could be solved with assisted reproductive technologies...

    Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge