Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 340 p)
Ausgabe:
1st ed
Ausgabe:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Ausgabe:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781350049772
Inhalt:
"The human body was revolutionised 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Also issued in print.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781847887931
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781350049772?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCulturalHistory
