@article{ref1,
title="The Classed Body in the Sociological Imagination",
journal="Sociology compass",
year="2008",
author="Adair, Vivyan C.",
volume="2",
number="5",
pages="1655-1671",
abstract="Class theorists of embodiment in Sociology point to and illuminate both an over- and an under-exposed body and experience that ultimately mark the bodies of the poor as ideologically, discursively and materially abject. In this essay, I map out theories of the bodies of the poor, including those of Marx, Engels, Elias, Bourdieu, Foucault, Donzelot and Adair. I suggest that an understanding of the ways in which the bodies of the poor are positioned as abject can facilitate a flexible and reflexive heuristic through which we can negotiate epistemic shifts between material and discursive categories, as well as providing us with a template through which we can come to understand even the most profoundly abject bodies, those of poor women in a welfare state, as potential sites of embodied agency and resistance, all central to the ethical and holistic study of sociology.<p />",
language="",
issn="1751-9020",
doi="10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00135.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00135.x"
}