{"product_id":"9781032352343-consuming-bodies","title":"Consuming Bodies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBody Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsuming Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e takes a critical perspective on body commodification both in the US and across the globe, addressing newly emerging practices and making an important contribution to social scientific understandings of the body that goes beyond the Eurocentrism of the extant scholarly literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur bodies reveal the values, priorities, anxieties, and material realities of the society in which we are situated, and in contemporary consumer societies, human bodies both reflect the defining characteristics of our time and carry the markers of social hierarchies based on categories such as gender, race, and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways our bodies are increasingly commodified, from before birth to after death, through both long-standing forms of commodification (captive labor, sex work, and spectator sports) and newer forms (commercial surrogacy, the thriving trade in human biomaterials, female genital “rejuvenation” surgery, global romance tourism, and green burial practices, among others). As this diverse range of topics demonstrates, body commodification reaches increasingly into every realm of our lives, from our most intimate experiences to encounters with pop culture, the “beauty” industries, the medical-industrial complex, and the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume takes a critical perspective on body commodification and embodiment both in the US and across the globe, making an important contribution to social scientific understandings of the body, both by going beyond the Eurocentric approach that typifies much of the extant scholarly literature, and by addressing newly emerging practices that are growing out of techno-scientific and social changes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55097818743158,"sku":"9781032352343","price":47.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31962086.jpg?v=1760340789","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032352343-consuming-bodies","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}