In 2010 Jacqueline Low was invited to become an editorial board member of the then new online open-access journal Societies. In that same year, Claudia Malacrida was approached to organize a session on the sociology of the body at the 2012 International Sociological Association (ISA) meetings in Buenos Aries. When the call came in 2011 from Societies for editorial board members to propose topics for special issues of the journal, it was a natural and fortuitous timing of events and we undertook to co-edit this special issue based, in part, on papers from the conference. Because of our shared history of writing about social aspects of the body, we were convinced that both the conference and the journal papers would produce interesting and important advancements in a sub-discipline that is making exciting contributions beyond its borders to social theory and empirical sociological work.
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The Body in Culture and Society: Embodiment and Practice. In Proceedings of the Second ISA Forum of Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization. The Body in the Social Sciences, RC54 Session 9, Buenos Aries, Argentina, 1–4 August 2012.
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The Body and Difference in Society: Embodiment, Theory and Social Control. In Proceedings of the Second ISA Forum of Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization. The Body in the Social Sciences, RC54 Session 5, Buenos Aries, Argentina, 1–4 August 2012.
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Shilling, C. Afterword: Embodiment, Social Order, and the Classification of Humans as Waste. Societies 2013, 3, 261–265, doi:10.3390/soc3030261.
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Brayton, S. Working stiff(s) on reality television during the Great Recession. Societies 2012, 2, 235–251, doi:10.3390/soc2040235.
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DePoy, E.; Gilson, S. Disability as microcosm: The boundaries of the human body. Societies 2012, 2, 302–316, doi:10.3390/soc2040302.
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Horejes, T.P.; Heuer, C.J. Negotiating deaf bodies and corporeal experiences: The cybernetic deaf subject. Societies 2013, 3, 170–185, doi:10.3390/soc3020170.
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The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance; Low, J., Bowden, G., Eds.; McGill-Queens University Press: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2013. in press.
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Low, J.; Dupuis-Blanchard, S. From zoomers to geezerade: Representations of the aging body in ageist and consumerist society. Societies 2013, 3, 52–65, doi:10.3390/soc3010052.
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Malacrida, C. Mourning the Dreams: How Parents Create Meaning from Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Early Infant Death; Left Coast Press: Walnut Creek, CA, USA, 2007.
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Sociology of the Body: A Reader; Malacrida, C., Low, J., Eds.; Oxford University Press: Don Mills, Ontario, Canada, 2008.
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Malacrida, C. Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder; University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003.
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Malacrida, C. Bodily practices as vehicles for dehumanization in an institution for mental defectives. Societies 2012, 2, 286–301, doi:10.3390/soc2040286.
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Katz, S. Cultural Aging: Life Course, Lifestyle, And Senior Worlds; Broadview Press: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 2005.
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Marshall, B.L.; Katz, S. The embodied life course: Post-ageism or the renaturalization of gender? Societies 2012, 2, 222–234, doi:10.3390/soc2040222.
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Oró-Piqueras, M. Ageing Corporealities in Contemporary English Fiction; Lambert Academic Publishing: Saarbrücken, Germany, 2011.
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Oró-Piqueras, M. The ‘dys-appearing’ body in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough? Societies 2012, 2, 270–285, doi:10.3390/soc2040270.
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Shilling, C. The Body in Culture, Technology and Society; Sage: London, UK, 2005.
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Shilling, C. Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity; Sage: London, UK, 2008.
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Slater, J. Youth for sale: Using critical disability perspectives to examine the embodiment of ‘youth’. Societies 2012, 2, 195–209, doi:10.3390/soc2030195.
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Soldatic, K.; Meekosha, H. The place of disgust: Disability, class and gender in spaces of workfare. Societies 2012, 2, 139–156, doi:10.3390/soc2030139.
