Disciplinary interventions and resistances around "safer sex"

Martin Mitchell

pp. 139-159

in: Kathryn Ellis, Hartley Dean, Jo Campling (eds), Social policy and the body, Berlin, Springer, 2000

Abstract

The recent interest in the relationship between the body and society in sociology has developed alongside an increased scrutiny of the construction and impact of social policies in many areas of health and social care. These developments have opened up the possibility of critically re-examining debates about the nature of subjectivity, while also attempting to reach an understanding of the ways in which state institutions actively intervene to shape and discipline our bodily practices and sense of self.