Capitalism and the production of uneven bodies

This article argues that processes of social reproduction are central to our understanding of body formation under capitalism. Articulated through a feminist historical materialist framework founded on a social ontology that recognises the material foundation of social life as constituted of both productive and reproductive activities, this paper develops the concept of uneven body as a more holistic approach integrating into corporeal geography a social reproduction lens. I explore the social and historical analytical capacity of the concept through a study of food distribution in Britain c .1850–1914 in order to reveal how certain bodies absorbed, mediated and embodied contradictions between production and social reproduction

Biology · Capitalism · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Food distribution · Materialism · Ontology · Political science · Production (economics · Reproduction · Social capital · Social order · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Ecology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law

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