Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.

Introduction: Language, Body Practices, and the Social -- 1 Production Practices -- a. Flexible Accumulation and the Labor Market -- b. Cybernetic Systems and the Labor Process -- c. The Discipline of Neoclassical Economics -- 2 Consumption Practices -- a. Product Characteristics and Use Value -- b. Image in Late-Capitalist Advertising -- c. The Consumption of Lifestyle -- d. The Semiotics of Late-Capitalist Commodity -- 3 The Hegemony of Exchangist Practices -- 4 Social Reproduction Practices -- a. Changing Household and the Politics of "The Family" -- b. Re-Racialization -- c. The Body and Bio-Technical Systems -- 5 Sexuality and Gender Construction -- a. Gender and Sexuality -- b. Sexual Lifestyle and Late-Capitalist Consumption -- c. Gender Construction in Late Capitalism -- 6 Redisciplining the Subject -- a. The Discourse of Psychiatry -- b. Changing Mental Health Practices -- c. The Bounds of Psychopathology -- Retrospect: The Problematic of the Body in Late Capitalism.

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