The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1 by Gallagher, Catherine

The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520059610)

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The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1 by Gallagher, Catherine

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

$30.95
The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1 by Gallagher, Catherine

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

$30.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Catherine Gallagher
ISBN-10: 0520059611
ISBN-13: 9780520059610
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/06/1987
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d
By Catherine Gallagher
By Catherine Gallagher
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Catherine Gallagher is the Eggers Professor of English Literature and has taught at Berkeley 1980. Her teaching and research focus on the British novel and cultural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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