"The Body, Gender and Culture"
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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....
The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700
1st Edition
By Katherine Royer
January 20, 2016
Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population at large. She argues that what began as a show of retribution and revenge became a ceremonial portrayal of redemption as the political, ...
The Life of Madame Necker: Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon
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By Sonja Boon
January 20, 2016
Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death....