Early Modern English Noblewomen and Self-Starvation: The Skull Beneath the Skin

ISBN-13: 9781138280441 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str.

Sasha Garwood

Opis

Early Modern English Noblewomen and Self-starvation: The Skull Beneath the Skin is a unique exploration of why early modern noblewomen starved themselves, how they understood their behaviour, and how it was interpreted and received by their contemporaries.

O autorze

Sasha Garwood is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on gender, sex and food as a nexus of cultural anxieties from the early modern period to the present. She studied at UCL and Keble College Oxford, is currently a Fellow of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, and teaches History at Sheffield and English Literature at the University of Nottingham.