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A sociology of embodiment has developed out of a critique that the literature on the body has failed to incorporate the voices of bodies as they are experienced or lived (James and Hockey 2007). Drawing on phenomenological analyses, this approach proposes that much of the existing literature has failed to challenge a whole series of dualisms such as: the split between mind and body; culture and nature; and reason and emotion. Such socially created dualisms are pernicious, not only because they are false, but also because they serve to reinforce ideologies and social hierarchies. “These dualisms,” Bendelow and Williams (1998: 1) argue, “have been mapped onto the gendered division of labour in which men, historically, have been allied with the mind, culture and the public realm of production, whilst women have been tied to their bodies, nature, and the private sphere of domestic reproduction.” But most important, from a sociological point of view they hinder any effective theorizing which must assume the inextricable interaction and oneness of mind and body. Studies of pain and emotion have, perhaps more than any other, revealed that the body and the mind are not separate entities (Bendelow and Williams 1998).