Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, the volume I co-edited with Asia Friedman, is now available in hard cover and digital editions (soft cover forthcoming in Spring 2024)! The book abstract (different from the blurb posted below), all chapter abstracts, and contributor bios are available on the promotional site I designed for the book, which you can find here: www.interpretingthebody.com. Preorder buttons that take you to Bristol University Press’s order page are also available on the site. Additional features such as author interviews, mini-podcasts, syllabi/pedagogical ideas, and more will be forthcoming closer to the print publication date. Stay tuned!
Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other contexts, the book’s chapters call into question taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and the body begin and end. Encouraging reflection and opening new perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the literature on the body.
