Changing Bodies

In this accessible yet highly informative book Chris Shilling sets out an analytical framework that can help social scientists interpret the body in culture, history and society.... I would recommend this book for any scholar with even a passing interest in the body and body culture. More specifically, it will be a useful resource for researchers, lecturers and final-year or postgraduate students examining the body in fields as seemingly wide as sociology, psychology, philosophy, geography and anthropology... An excellent contribution to body studies... I look forward to seeing Shilling’s perceptive ideas progress  -- George Bradley Jennings, University of Abertay Dundee
Confirms Shilling′s status as one of the most innovative and important figures in the study of the body in society in contemporary sociology. For anyone seeking to understand the significance of ′the body′ in contemporary culture and how it is both encrypted by and encrypts culture, this book is an essential read... It will help guide scholarship and research agendas for many years to come. -- Sport, Education and Society
Chris Shilling′s exciting new work revisits pragmatism to provide an innovative and compelling theoretical orientation for body studies. At a time when sociology of the body has been fragmenting into niche studies of distinctive bodies, Shilling offers a unifying framework that never sacrifices particularity. Changing Bodies should become a core text for all social science studies of the body. -- Professor Arthur W. Frank
In this new book, Chris Shilling once again seeks to redefine the parameters of the sociology of the body. This is essential reading for all those in search of a sophisticated theoretical and methodological basis for the study of embodied action that resists a simplistic ′inverted Cartesianism′. -- Dr Ian Burkitt