The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century: 1 (Representations Books) - Softcover

Gallagher, Catherine; Laqueur, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520059611 ISBN 13: 9780520059610

Publisher: University of California Press, 1987

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

"The body in its cultural context has become a rich topic for interdisciplinary studies. . . . brings together theoretically sophisticated and empirically revealing contributions that present the most advanced work in this new field."--Hayden White

From the Inside Flap

"The body in its cultural context has become a rich topic for interdisciplinary studies. . . . brings together theoretically sophisticated and empirically revealing contributions that present the most advanced work in this new field."

--Hayden White

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520059611
• ISBN 13: 9780520059610
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260