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The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

Laqueur, Thomas
Gallagher, Catherine

Paperback

Series: Representations Books, Book 1

General European HistoryGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0520059611
ISBN13: 9780520059610
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Feb 6 1987
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in different epochs, but it has also been lived differently, brought into being within widely dissimilar material cultures, subjected to various technologies and means of control, and incorporated into different rhythms of production and consumption, pleasure and pain. The eight articles in this volume support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights. They belong to a new historical endeavor that derives partly from the crossing of historical with anthropological investigations, partly from social historians' deepening interest in culture, partly from the thematization of the body in modern philosophy (especially phenomenology), and partly from the emphasis on gender, sexuality, and women's history that large numbers of feminist scholars have brought to all disciplines.

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