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Title:

A cultural history of the human body in the modern age / edited by Ivan Crozier.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Human body--History--History--20th century.
Human body in popular culture--History--20th century.
Human body in popular culture.
Human body--Social aspects.
1900-1999
History.

Other Authors:

Crozier, Ivan, 1972- editor of compilation.

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford : Berg Publishers, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-338) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : bodies in history, the task of the historian / D.M. Vyleta. The history of the body : self and society, 1920-2000 / Malcolm Nicolson -- Performing the Western sexual body after 1920 / Ivan Crozier -- The technological fix and the modern body : surgery as a paradigmatic case / Thomas Schlich -- Diseased bodies in the modern world / Anna Crozier -- Popular beliefs / Dan O'Connor -- Beauty and concepts of the ideal / Christopher E. Forth -- Re-markable bodies / Anna Cole and Anna Haebich -- Body marks (bestial/divine/natural) : an essay into the social and biotechnological imaginaries, 1920-2005 and bodies to come / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Dissolution, reconstruction, and reaction in visual art, 1920 to the present / Ana Carden-Coyne -- The history of the body : self and society, 1920-2000 / D.M. Vyleta.

Series:

A cultural history of the human body ; Volume 6

ISBN:

1472554671
9781472554673

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857981429

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)