The Body in Late-Capitalist USA

by Donald M. Lowe

In The Body in Late-Capitalist USA , Donald M. Lowe explores the varied social practices that code and construct the body. Arguing that our bodily lives are shaped by a complex of daily and ongoing practices--how we work, what we buy and consume--Lowe contends that as a result of the commodification of these and other social practices in the late-twentieth century, what we often understand to be the needs of the body are in fact means for capital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822316722
• ISBN13: 9780822316725
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"