History of the Body

ISBN-13: 9781352007718 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 158 str.

Willemijn Ruberg

Spis treści

Introduction.- 1. Body, Mind and Self: Historical Perspectives.- 2. The Modern Body, Discipline, and Agency.- 3. The Social Construction of Body and Disease.- 4. The Body, Gender and Sexuality.- 5. Experiencing the Body.- 6. Materialist Approaches to the Body.- Conclusion.  

O autorze

Willemijn Ruberg is Associate Professor in Cultural History at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She has published extensively on the history of the body, emotion, gender, knowledge and forensic medicine. She is currently leading the research project ‘Forensic Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Forensic Practices in Europe, 1930-2000’, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (2018-2023).