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Reviews the book "Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance," edited by Bronislaw Szerszynski, Wallace Heim and Claire Waterton.

Reviews several books. "The Sexual Life of Catherine M.," by Catherine Millet; "Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing," by Celia Hunt; "Old Age," by John Vincent.

Reviews the book "The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues," by Simon J. Williams and Gillian Bendelow.

A review of the book "Emotion, Identity and Religion: Hope, Reciprocity and Otherness," by Douglas J. Davies is presented.

Reviews the book "The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire," by Nick Crossley.

This is not a book about AIDS, it is a book about responses to AIDS (p. 1). It charts religious metaphors of judgement, compassion, healing, isolation, and threat. It takes the body-positives of each of these as metaphors for specific religious-bodies. It brings rituals of purity and danger (Douglas) together with the nomisation of death, disease and deviancy (Berger), and confers them upon metaphors of the AIDS-body (Sontag). The question asked is of AIDS as a symbol for socio-religious order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Body Matters: Essays on the Sociology of the Body," edited by Sue Scott and David Morgan.

Reviews the book "Industry, Children and the Nation: An Analysis of National Identity in School Textbooks," by John Ahier.