The Making of the Modern Body

The Making of the Modern Body
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0520059611
ISBN-13 : 9780520059610
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Book Synopsis The Making of the Modern Body by : Catherine Gallagher

Download or read book The Making of the Modern Body written by Catherine Gallagher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-02-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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