Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present (Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face) - Softcover

Patricia Skinner; Emily Cock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350142972 ISBN 13: 9781350142978

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Synopsis

What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and ugliness.

Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic, visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the heart of our historical and cultural narratives.

This cutting-edge collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for humanities scholars working across history, literature and visual culture, as well as modern practitioners in education and psychology.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Skinner is Research Professor in History at Swansea University, UK. She is also co-editor of Social History of Medicine.

Emily Cock is Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research at Swansea University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350142972
• ISBN 13: 9781350142978
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Patricia Skinner, Emily Cock