Making Bodies Sexed and Gendered Bodies as Social Institutions Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology 1st Edition by Irene Rafanell ISBN 3031454766 9783031454769

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ISBN 10: 3031454766 

ISBN 13: 9783031454769

Author: Irene Rafanell

This book presents a novel theoretical account of the claim that sexed and gendered bodies are socially constructed. In order to do so it critically reconstructs and combines existing theories of the embodiment of social identity (Bourdieu, Foucault, Butler) with the constructionist account of the Sociology of Knowledge (Strong Programme). This allows the author to develop a detailed conceptual apparatus which helps to analyse the nature of sexed and gendered bodies as social institutions. This book argues for a view of the body as an ‘artificial kind’ of entity which is the effect of contingent and localized practices and that incorporates both social and natural determinants. In doing so, the book reformulates key sociological dichotomies such as nature/society; structure/agency and domination/resistance, critically analysing different structuralist positions and advancing an ‘intrinsic’ structuralist model which foregrounds the importance of human relations in the constitution of social phenomena. This theoretical investigation has important methodological implications for empirical research into the formation of sex and gender identities and practices, enabling a more objective and naturalistic approach to empirical data concerning social phenomena.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Sociology And The Body
Chapter 3: Bourdieu’s Theory Of Practice
Chapter 4: The Performative Theory Of Social Institutions
Chapter 5: Reassessing Bourdieu’s Contribution To The Debate On The Social Construction Of The Body
Chapter 6: Discursive Feminism Evaluating Bourdieu
Chapter 7: Sex Habitus As An Artificial Kind
Chapter 8: Identifying Power
Chapter 9: Conclusions

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