TY - BOOK ID - 5258087 TI - Remaking the body PY - 1998 SN - 0415186013 0415186021 0203201590 1280325526 1134664974 9786610325528 0203287355 9780203287354 9780203201596 9781134664979 9781280325526 9781134664924 1134664923 9781134664962 1134664966 9780415186018 9780415186025 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Paralysis KW - Body Image KW - Body image. KW - Paralysie KW - Image du corps KW - Paralytics KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Rehabilitation KW - 316 KW - Sociologie --(algemeen) KW - Medische psychologie KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Rehabilitation. KW - gezondheidspsychologie KW - gezondheidspsychologie. KW - 316 Sociologie --(algemeen) KW - Gezondheidspsychologie. KW - Image, Body KW - Palsy KW - Paresis KW - Patients KW - Body image KW - People with disabilities KW - Movement disorders KW - Imagery (Psychology) KW - Mind and body KW - Person schemas KW - Personality KW - Self-perception KW - Human body KW - Paralysis. KW - Body Image. KW - Paralysis - Psychological aspects KW - Paralysis - Social aspects KW - Paralytics - Rehabilitation KW - People with paralysis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5258087 AB - In Remaking the Body, Wendy Seymour interviews men and women who have suffered profound bodily paralysis, and explores how they deal with their appearance, relationships, sexuality, incontinence and sport. She finds that even major impairment hasn't annihilated these people's experience of an embodied self. She shows that the process of self-reconstruction is interwoven with social expectations and argues that the experience of disability highlights the continuous work involved in embodiment for everyone. Remaking the Body is a major contribution to the field of the socio ER -