work and leisure are seen as taking place either 'in' or 'away from' the home. The space between home and the place of work …

care and other services for the ageing population of retirees in southeast Florida, as well as on tattooing and other body … 'body work economy'. It documents the body work landscape of contemporary capitalism through exploring the ubiquity …, appearance and scale of body work enterprises and employment in two localities of south Florida. It focuses on health, social …

approach to the study of clothing in general. This approach is concerned with the study of the clothed body and the experiences …

ethnographic observations ground theoretical debate about the impact of risk society on body- and identity building in late …

Historically the working class, black, female body has been defined by its sexuality and socially constructed as an … student can reconstruct and reproduce her own body in a way that grants it agency, rather than objectifying it within a …

question mind/body dualisms within contemporary gender schema, but also challenge the continued reliance on a sex … concept of a \'sense of gender\' – a sense that belongs to the body, but that is not the same as its fleshy materiality â … sense of dissonance (sometimes articulated through the \'wrong body discourse\') among the various elements that compose the …

British media celebrity Jade Goody. Some sociologists have argued that death is sequestrated, with the dying body particularly … creates new arenas for publicising the bodily, personal and emotional experience of dying, while at the same time affirming …

sensory aesthetics of place. In doing so it advances a video-ethnography approach to studying 'invisible' elements of everyday … how the video tour as a multisensorial and collaborative research encounter can open up understandings of home as place …

their views of their own place. In addition, it is clear that when participants are asked to take photographs of their …