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A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9781350049758
著者・編者Reeves, Carole (ed.),
シリーズ (The Cultural Histories Series)
出版社 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK)
出版年月2014
ページ数312 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A02-28527>

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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.