Consuming Bodies

Consuming Bodies takes a critical perspective on body commodification both in the US and across the globe, addressing newly emerging practices and making an important contribution to social scientific understandings of the body that goes beyond the Eurocentrism of the extant scholarly literature.

This collection, Consuming Bodies, offers a diverse, comprehensive and incisive analysis of the conditions shaping embodiment amidst capitalist processes of commodification. Covering themes across the life-course, from reproductive technologies, the biomaterials trade, cosmetic surgery, and to the natural burial marketplace, chapters provide an impressive range of topics. Authors are at the cutting edge of scholarship and demonstrate the body's significance for understanding the contemporary conditions of our social and cultural worlds. A must-read for students and scholars of health, gender and race, power, and the embodied dynamics of inequalities.

Julia Coffey , Associate Professor of the School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle Australia, author of Everyday Embodiment: Rethinking Youth Body Image (2021)

Jackie Hogan is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (USA). She has authored three books, including Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood ; Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America ; and Roots Quest: Inside America’s Genealogy Boom .

Sarah Whetstone is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (USA). Her past research focused on social inequalities in American addiction treatment, punishment, stigma, and suffering in the carceral state. Her new projects explore gender, sport, creative resistance, and embodiment.