Forthcoming The Body Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Dimensions of Pain

   Humanities and Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Lisa Folkmarson Käll

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

   Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing. Examining closely subjective experiences of pain, this book explores the way in which pain is situated, communicated and formed...

   To Be Published September 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Fat

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Shortcuts

   In contemporary western societies the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized and...

   To Be Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport

   'Walking the Line'

   By Joseph Maguire

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire’s work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body,...

   To Be Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. Transforming Images

   Screens, affect, futures

   By Rebecca Coleman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Contemporary society and culture are increasingly described in terms of change, mobility and vitality. Within this context, the body is seen as a key site of transformation. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a...

   To Be Published October 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. War and the Body

   Militarisation, Practice and Experience

   Edited by Kevin McSorley

   Series: War, Politics and Experience

   This edited volume places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war and its consequences. The reality of war is not just politics by any other means but politics incarnate; politics written on and experienced through the thinking, feeling bodies of men and women. From steeled...

   To Be Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Criminology of Pleasure

   By Mike McGuire, Simon Hallsworth

   The Criminology of Pleasure offers a new way of thinking about crime and crime control, as it maintains that the very rationale of the criminal justice system lies in the channelling of desire and regulating of pleasure. Criminology has only confronted the importance of the desire/pleasure...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
7. The Transgender Studies Reader, Volume 2

   Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Aizura

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
8. The Transgender Studies Reader 1&2 BUNDLE

   Edited by Aren Aizura, Susan Stryker

   Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a dynamic field of interdisciplinary scholarship. First collected in Routledge's own The Transgender Studies Reader in 2006, the field has moved on, rapidly expanding in many directions. The Transgender Studies Reader 2 gathers these...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
9. Imagining Masculinities

   Spatial and Temporal Representation and Visual Culture

   By Katarzyna Kosmala

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   This book examines the intersections between debates in critical studies of men and masculinities and debates on visual representation, investigating representations of men and masculinities in contemporary culture and examples of visual art that deconstruct those representations. It attends to...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Public Sex and the Law

    Silent Desire

    By Chris Ashford

    Public Sex and the Law: Silent Desire examines the current legal status and regulation of public sex. Legal reform of sexuality appears to have focused upon the lesbian, gay and bisexual communities. But whilst ‘gay’ sexual acts and identities have seen a raft of legal reform and international...

    To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish