Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine

Daniel Schäfer

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease. Lees meer

The Life of Madame Necker

Sonja Boon

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nat... Lees meer

The Body, Gender and Culture 1-10

• Boek | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Contains the first ten books from the series. Lees meer

The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700-1900

Fiona Hutton

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal point, she examines how t... Lees meer

Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors... Lees meer

The English Execution Narrative, 1200-1700

Katherine Royer

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the p... Lees meer

Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India

Angma Dey Jhala

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history... Lees meer

Blake, Gender and Culture

Helen P Bruder

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Blake's combination of verse and design invites interdisciplinary study. The essays in this collection approach his work from a variety of perspective... Lees meer

Women, Agency and the Law, 1300-1700

Bronach Kane

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Based on close readings of both public and private documents - court records, churchwarden accounts, depositions, diaries, letters and pamphlets - thi... Lees meer

The Early Modern Child in Art and History

Matthew Knox Averett

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this collection range chronologically from the fifteenth to the e... Lees meer

Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500-1850

Brian Muñoz

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of e... Lees meer

Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment

Amy Eisen Cislo

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed a... Lees meer

The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World

Shino Konishi

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• This is the first historical study of indigenous Australian masculinity. Using the reactions of eighteenth-century western explorers to Aboriginal men... Lees meer

Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800

Francisco Vazquez Garcia

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to ... Lees meer

Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500-1800

Francisco Vazquez Garcia

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Early modern European thought held that men and women were essentially the same. During the seventeenth century, medical and legal arguments began to ... Lees meer

Blake, Gender and Culture

Helen P Bruder

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Blake's combination of verse and design invites interdisciplinary study. The essays in this collection approach his work from a variety of perspective... Lees meer

Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine

Daniel Schafer

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease. Lees meer

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of essays focuses ... Lees meer

Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors... Lees meer

The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World

Shino Konishi

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• This is the first historical study of indigenous Australian masculinity. Using the reactions of eighteenth-century western explorers to Aboriginal men... Lees meer

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of essays focuses ... Lees meer

The Life of Madame Necker

Sonja Boon

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nat... Lees meer

Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England

Helen Yallop

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for 'aging' existed at this time, a p... Lees meer

The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900

Gülhan Balsoy

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Gender and Culture
• Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programm... Lees meer