Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 340 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350049772
Series Statement:
The Cultural Histories Series volume 6
Content:
"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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Introduction: Bodies in History-The Task of the Historian / Ivan Crozier (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- 1 Death and Birth / Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow, UK) -- 2 Performing the Western Sexual Body after 1920 / Ivan Crozier (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- 3 The Technological Fix and the Modern Body: Surgery as a Paradigmatic Case / Thomas Schlich (McGill University, Canada) -- 4 Diseased Bodies in the Modern World / Anna Crozier (University of Exeter, UK) -- 5 Popular Beliefs / Dan O'Connor (Johns Hopkins University, USA) -- 6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal / Christopher E. Forth (University of Kansas, USA) -- 7 Re-markable Bodies / Anna Cole (University of London, UK) and Anna Haebich (Griffith University, Australia) -- 8 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, USA) -- 9 Dissolution, Reconstruction, and Reaction in Visual Art, 1920 to the Present / Ana Carden-Coyne (University of Manchester, UK) -- 10 The History of the Body: Self and Society, 1920-2000 D. M. Vyleta (Independent scholar, USA) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
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Also published in print
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350995628
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472554673
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350049778
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1847887937
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847887931
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781472554673
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350049772
