The Body & Identity Books

New and Published Books

1. Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health

   Edited by Lenore Manderson

   Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health

   Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people’s sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renewed interest in...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Regenerating Bodies

   Tissue and Cell Therapies in the Twenty-First Century

   By Julie Kent

   Series: Genetics and Society

   This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global ‘tissue economies’ the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and stem cell...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery

   Body image, Shame and Narcissism

   By Jane Northrop

   Cosmetic surgery represents an extreme form of modern grooming. It is the fastest growing medical specialty, yet misconceptions abound about those who undertake it and their reasons for doing so. With a grounded approach, engaging 30 women through in-depth interview, this study explores how they...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Regulating Bodies

   Essays in Medical Sociology

   By Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan S. Turner

   Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously....

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

   Edited by Anthony Elliott

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century. The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts to...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
8. Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety

   Edited by SEAN HIER

   Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety is a collection of original essays written by some of the world’s leading social scientists. It seeks to provide unique insight into the importance of moral panic as a routine feature of everyday life, whilst also developing an integrated framework for moral...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
9. Gender Circuits

   Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age

   By Eve Shapiro

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied...

   Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge
10. Sex For Sale

    Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Ronald Weitzer

    This groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications. Sex for Sale covers areas not commonly researched, including gay and lesbian pornography, telephone sex workers, customers of...

    Published July 27th 2009 by Routledge