Body matters : essays on the sociology of the body / edited by Sue Scott and David Morgan. - London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1993. - xi, 148 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bodies in a social landscape / \'With my body I thee worship\' : the social construction of marital sex problems / Dance and the culture of the body / Pumping irony : the muscular and the feminine / You too can have a body like mine : reflections on the male body and masculinities / Selling the body, keeping the soul : sexuality, power, the theories and realities of prostitution / D.H.J. Morgan and Sue Scott -- David Clark -- Joyce Sherlock -- Alan Mansfield and Barbara McGinn -- David Morgan -- Susan S.M. Edwards. The inverted gaze / Purity and pollution : body management and the social place of infancy / Afterward : constructing a research agenda / Ruth Waterhouse -- Anne Murcott -- David Morgan and Sue Scott.

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Body, Human--Social aspects.
Body image.
Person schemas.

Culture Related to Sexuality

306.4 SCO