Embodiment

Abstract

Abstract One does not have a body; one is a body. Embodiment refers to the cultural, social, physical, psychic, and experiential nature of being a body. Theorists take several different approaches in defining embodiment, sometimes integrating the physical, mental, and cultural, and at other times falsely dichotomizing embodiment's complex interrelated components. The body is a site of pleasure, pain, difference, and politics simultaneously. The body is agentic and lived, yet inscribed upon. Social actors both negotiate embodiment and take embodiment – their own and others’ – for granted. Embodiment is affected by the technologies of the time, from language to medicine, to present‐day integrations with mechanical and digital objects.

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