Discourse, the Body, and Identity

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction; J.Coupland & R.Gwyn PART I: THE BODY AS AN INTERACTIONAL RESOURCE The Body in Action; C.Goodwin Transcending the Object in Embodied Interaction; J.Hindmarsh & C.Heath Flirting; A.Radley PART II: IDEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BODY Ageing Bodies, Aged by Culture; M.Hepworth Tales of Outrage and the Everyday: Fear of Crime and Bodies at Risk; M.Tulloch & J.Tulloch Ageist Ideology and Discourses of Control in Skin Care Product Marketing; J.Coupland Talking Bodies: Invoking the Ideal in the BBC Naked Programme; A.Jaworski Bodies Exposed: A Cross-Cultural Semiotic Comparison of Saunas; U.Meinhof PART III: THE BODY, PATHOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF SELFHOOD Processes of Re-figuration: Shifting Identities in Cancer Narratives; R.Gwyn The Statistical Body; K.Woodward 'I am Normal on the Net': Disability, Computerized Communication Technologies and the Embodied Self; D.Lupton