Written by leading social scientists, this ambitious volume asks what individuals’ “handling” of bodies reveal about inequality, social order and cultural change in societies.
Based on empirical cases, the chapters cover topics such as extremism and belonging, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, calling into question taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world and the body begin and end.

Contributions by: Ben Spatz, Kathryn Linn Geurts, Sefakore Komabu-Pomeyie, Sweta Rajan-Rankin, Mrinalini Greedharry, Lee Monaghan, Piper Sledge, Erin Johnston, Brittney Miles, Chandra Russo, Annemarie Jutel