| Approaching Facial Difference Past and Present Contributor(s): Skinner, Patricia (Editor), Cock, Emily (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350142972 ISBN-13: 9781350142978 Publisher: Continnuum-3PL OUR PRICE: $46.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History |
| Series: Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.82 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic, visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the heart of our historical and cultural narratives. This cutting-edge collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for humanities scholars working across history, literature and visual culture, as well as modern practitioners in education and psychology. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Garthine: - GARTHINE WALKER is Senior Lecturer in History at Cardiff University. Her publications include Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Writing Early Modern History(Arnold, 2005), and essays and articles on topics ranging from abduction, rape and criminal households to the influence of psychoanalysis and modernisation theory in historical writing. |