The lived body : sociological themes, embodied issues /

British sociologists Williams and Bendelow, recent collaborators on Emotions in Social Life: Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues (Routledge, 1998), here reconsider the mind-body problem. Observing that "things are much more `messy' " than is suggested by the strict "dualistic legacies of the past," the authors suggest (unwisely?) that sociologists pay more attention to "the adult body in contemporary Western (i.e., European and North American) society." Chapters consider "bodily `order' " and "bodily `control,' " the " `libidinal' body" and the "emotionally `expressive' body." The authors' grounding in Marx, Freud, Foucault, Giddens, and others is substantial, and their discussions thought-provoking. Recommended for research and special libraries.‘Ellen D. Gilbert, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.