Power Search
Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment
Contributor(s): Reeves, Carole (Editor)

View larger image

 ISBN: 1472554655     ISBN-13: 9781472554659
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE: $43.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2014
Qty:

Click for more in this series: Cultural Histories
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology
- History | Social History
Dewey: 306.461
Series: Cultural Histories
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.6" W x 9.4" L (1.20 lbs) 312 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
The Enlightenment, 1650-1800 was a time when people began to take stock of their intrinsic worth as individuals. Of course, slaves were still property, servants and apprentices were indentured, daughters "belonged" to fathers and brothers, wives to husbands, and paupers were tethered to their parish. But change was in the air as increased population, migration and urbanization began to reshape both national and personal identity. The birth of modern society in the Enlightenment demanded a rethinking of the human body in all its forms, from conception to death and beyond. The history of midwives, medics, colonialists, cross-dressers, corpses, vampires, witches, beggars, beauties, body snatchers, incest and immaculate conceptions - all reveal how the body changed in this age of turbulence and transition.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment 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.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!