Making Bodies

Irene Rafanell is a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland, UK where she teaches on gender theory, sociology of the body and social theory. Her work explores the connections between social theory, social constructionism, sociology of knowledge and the body. She has also published on the role of micro-affective dynamics on the constitution of social phenomena.

• Chapter 1: Introduction. - Chapter 2: Sociology and the Body.- Chapter 3: Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice.- Chapter 4: The Performative Theory of Social Institutions.- Chapter 5: Reassessing Bourdieu’s Contribution to the Debate on the Social Construction of the Body.- Chapter 6:  Discursive Feminism Evaluating Bourdieu. - Chapter 7: Sex Habitus as an Artificial Kind.- Chapter 8: Identifying Power.- Chapter 9: Conclusions.