How Long to Read The Body in Late-Capitalist USA

How Long Does it Take to Read The Body in Late-Capitalist USA?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read The Body in Late-Capitalist USA by Donald M. Lowe

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In The Body in Late-Capitalist USA, Donald M. Lowe explores the varied social practices that code and construct the body. Arguing that our bodily lives are shaped by a complex of daily and ongoing practices—how we work, what we buy and consume—Lowe contends that as a result of the commodification of these and other social practices in the late-twentieth century, what we often understand to be the needs of the body are in fact means for capital accumulation. Moving beyond studies of representations and images of the body, Lowe focuses on the intersection of body practices, language, and the Social to describe concretely the reality of a lived body. His strongly synthetic work brings together Marxist critique, semiotics, Foucaultian discourse analysis, and systems and communications theory to examine those practices that construct the body under late capitalism: habits of work and consumption, the ways we give birth and raise children, socialization, mental and physical healing, reconstructions and contestations of sexuality and gender. Lowe draws upon a wide range of sources, including government and labor studies and statistics, diagnostic and statistical manuals on mental illness, computer manuals, self-help books, and guides to work-related stress disorders, to illustrate the transformation of the body into a nexus of exchange value in postmodern society.

How long is The Body in Late-Capitalist USA?

The Body in Late-Capitalist USA by Donald M. Lowe is 226 pages long, and a total of 57,856 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Body in Late-Capitalist USA Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read The Body in Late-Capitalist USA aloud.

What Reading Level is The Body in Late-Capitalist USA?

The Body in Late-Capitalist USA is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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