"The Body, Gender and Culture"
Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
1st Edition
By Margaret Brannan Lewis
October 14, 2024
This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a period in which both practices were regarded equally as criminal acts. Faced with dire consequences if they were found pregnant or if they bore illegitimate ...
The Early Modern Child in Art and History
1st Edition
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By Matthew Knox Averett
October 14, 2024
Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this collection range chronologically from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, and geographically across England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. They chart the depictions of children in various media ...
Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
1st Edition
By Helen Yallop
January 20, 2016
Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for ‘aging’ existed at this time, a person’s age was a significant aspect of their identity....
Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500–1850
1st Edition
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By Brian Muñoz, Matthew Landers
January 20, 2016
Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays explores the impact of anatomical knowledge on wider issues of learning and culture....
Blake, Gender and Culture
1st Edition
By Helen P Bruder
January 20, 2016
Blake's combination of verse and design invites interdisciplinary study. The essays in this collection approach his work from a variety of perspectives including masculinity, performance, plant biology, empire, politics and sexuality....
Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India
1st Edition
By Angma Dey Jhala
January 20, 2016
Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion....
Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800
1st Edition
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By Anne Leah Greenfield
January 20, 2016
The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors examine the underlying ideologies that spawned these representations, confronting the social, political, legal and aesthetic conditions of the day....
Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment: Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Amy Eisen Cislo
January 20, 2016
Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed an understanding of the body as composed of two distinct sexes, revolutionizing early modern conceptions of the female body as an inversion of or ...
Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality
1st Edition
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By Ann Lewis, Markman Ellis
January 20, 2016
The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways that the sex trade was represented in popular culture of the time, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory ...
Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500–1800
1st Edition
By Francisco Vazquez Garcia
January 20, 2016
Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to turn against this ‘one-sex’ model, with hermaphroditism seen as a medieval superstition. This book traces this change in Iberia in comparison to the ...
Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 1680–1810
1st Edition
By Lynn Sorge-English
January 20, 2016
This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century social and cultural history. Starting with their production and trade, Sorge-English looks at the intricacies of the staymaker’s craft, the role of gender in the design and manufacture of stays and the changing shape of stays...
The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World
1st Edition
By Shino Konishi
January 20, 2016
This is the first historical study of indigenous Australian masculinity. Using the reactions of eighteenth-century western explorers to Aboriginal men, Konishi argues that these encounters were not as negative as has been thought....