| The Variable Body in History Contributor(s): Scherer, Bee (Other), Mounsey, Chris (Editor), Booth, Stan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1906165726 ISBN-13: 9781906165727 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $81.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Social Science | Women's Studies - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| LCCN: 2016942152 |
| Series: Queering Paradigms |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.95 lbs) 294 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays in this book explore the different ways the body has been experienced and interpreted in history, from the medieval to the modern period. Challenging the negative perceptions that the term 'disability' suggests, the essays together present a mosaic of literary representations of bodies and accounts of real lives lived in their particularity and peculiarity. The book does not attempt to be exhaustive, but rather it celebrates the fact that it is not. By presenting a group of individual cases from different periods in history, the collection demonstrates that any overarching way of describing bodies, or unifying description of the experience of the myriad ways of being in a body, is reductive and unhelpful. The variability of each body in its context is our subject. |
