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Body on the Plate. On the Relation between the Carnality and Food (on the example of meat in advertising)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Do we own our bodies? Do we control them during the meal, or does the meal control us? In this paper, we aim to examine the complex nexus of social and physical practices embedded in eating habits. During the examination ...
The Theater Plays the Body. Replication of the Canon of Beauty among Young Actresses in the Theater
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
The article presents the results of our independent qualitative research conducted in Polish theater circles. In-depth interviews have been conducted with fourth-year female students of acting faculties from four state ...
Nudity, Sexuality, Photography. Visual Redefinition of the Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
The article examines the relations between photography, body, nudity, and sexuality. It presents changing relations of photography with a naked or semi-naked body and different forms and recording conventions. From the ...
Body, Meanings, and Physical Exercise in Older Adults: The Qualitative Perspective of Frequent Gym-Goers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-31)
It is known that rates of participation in sports and physical activities among older adults decrease as they get older. This article focuses on the experience of the aging body at the gym, and it is one of the few that ...
Body and Social Interaction—The Case of Dance. Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)
The article aims at presenting the symbolic interactionism as a useful and flexible theoretical perspective in research on the human body. It shows the assumptions of symbolic interactionism in their relation to the human ...
A Present and a Non-Present Body—Experiencing the Body by Female Sex Workers in Commercial Sexual Relations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Making women’s bodies accessible to men in the commercial context is related to specific ways of experiencing it. The purpose of the article is to discuss the category of a non-present, selectively present, and present ...
Body, Beauty, and Death in an Andean Context: A Self-Ethnographic Narration
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-07)
With this article I seek to build bridges between the different narrative elements where the body is situated as a central language, of experiences as a researcher in socio-cultural contexts of Bolivian indigenous peoples ...
The Role of Sport in the Process of Negotiating Identity: Dealing with the Stigma of Disability by People with Acquired Bodily Dysfunctions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-10-31)
This paper is intended to present the role of sport in the lives of people with physical disabilities and to determine how practicing sports changes the way a person with a physical disability sees themselves. The paper ...