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- SAGE
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- 0038-0261
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- 1467-954X
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- 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1985.tb03304.x
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Abstract
John Hargreaves It is extraordinarily difficult to think of the body and its functions in any other terms than as a natural phenomenon. The rationalist bias in Western culture entails a radical separation of body and mind that accords primacy to the mind. The latter is the province of 'civilization'. In contrast, the body belongs to nature, the kingdom of desire, the source of threatening, irrational impulses and dangerous appetites; and it must be disciplined if civilization is to survive. Since the beginning of the modern era the image of the body as a machine which only functions properly under the control of the rational faculty has expressed such assumptions with profound effects. Accordingly, until quite recently, the body has been almost entirely evacuated from social and political theory: a built-in resistance prevents its role in the constitution of power relations from being analysed. Sociology, for example, in attempting to map the field of social relations as a domain sui generis, met competition from other disciplines, which would reduce the social to the biological and psychological levels, by shying away from attributing social significance to the body. Similarly, the silence of the marxist tradition on the body, and its
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The Sociological Review – SAGE
Published: May 1, 1985