Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

The human body was revolutionized in the 20th century. Developments in politics, sexuality, technology, and culture all acted to reshape our understanding of our bodies. The human body in the 21st century is less fixed than ever before with some theorists now even anticipating the post-human body. Diverse factors have impacted on both the real and the imagined body, including war, contraception, medicine, feminism, gay aesthetics, the rise of celebrity culture, totalitarian political regimes, fashion, AIDS, communication technologies and cosmetic surgery. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-16
Mått:244 x 172 x 18 mm
Vikt:660 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Histories Series
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472554673

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Ivan Crozier is Senior Lecturer in Science Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK and co-editor of Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality.

Innehållsförteckning

IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Bodies in History - The Task of the Historian Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, UK1 Death and Birth Malcolm Nicolson, University of Glasgow, UK2 Performing the Western Sexual Body after 1920 Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, UK3 The Technological Fix and the Modern Body: Surgery as a Paradigmatic Case Thomas Schlich, McGill University, Canada4 Diseased Bodies in the Modern World Anna Crozier, University of Exeter, UK5 Popular Beliefs Dan O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University, USA6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Christopher E. Forth, University of Kansas, USA7 Re-markable Bodies Anna Cole, University of London, UK and Anna Haebich, Griffith University, Australia8 Body Marks, Bestial/Divine/Natural: An Essay into the Social and Biotechnological Imaginaries, 1920-2005 and Bodies to Come Michael M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA9 Dissolution, Reconstruction, and Reaction in Visual Art, 1920 to the Present Ana Carden-Coyne, University of Manchester, UK10 The History of the Body: Self and Society, 1920-2000 D. M. Vyleta, Independent scholar, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index