The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and social (dis)order bodies and identities bodily norms bodies in health and dis-ease bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction contributions from key figures such as Butler Sedgwick Martin Scheper-Huges Haraway and Gilroy and a series of introductions summarizing each section this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body. . Language: English