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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC History of the Body
Book SynopsisThe body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality. This engaging and concise book offers a clear introduction to the history of the body, introducing a wide array of conceptual approaches to the field. It delineates the topic of body history and its origins in cultural history and gender history, distinguishing it from related disciplines such as the history of the self, the history of medicine, the history of emotion and gender history. Bringing in a wealth of thought-provoking examples from historical writing, it goes on to explore a range of themes, including racism, anorexia, gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis and agency. With further reading and explanations of key concepts provided throughout, this wide-ranging yet accessible text is the first introductory book to address this vibrant field from a theoretical perspective. It is ideal for students of hisTrade ReviewIn History of the Body, Willemijn Ruberg provides an accessible, clearly written overview of the key concepts relating to the history of the body. This book will become an invaluable resource for students and academics alike. * Ian Miller, Ulster University, UK *Willemijn Ruberg’s overview of the history of the body is comprehensive, conceptually astute, and, most importantly, useful. Cogently surveying how body history has been theorized and practiced, her concise account elegantly tracks the past of the field while charting its present and potential futures. Essential reading for those seeking solid grounding in the subject. * Christopher E. Forth, University of Kansas, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 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.
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Brill Sexed Sentiments: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Emotion
Book SynopsisSexed Sentiments provides a gender perspective on the recent turn to affect in criticism. It presents new work by scholars from different disciplines working on gender and emotion, a field par excellence where an interdisciplinary focus is fruitful. This collection presents essays from disciplines like history, literary studies, psychology, sociology and queer studies, focusing on subjects varying from masculinity in the cult of sensibility to the role of empathy in forging feminist solidarities. The volume illuminates how new theoretical approaches to both gender and emotion may be productively applied to a variety of fields.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Willemijn Ruberg: Introduction Historical Perspectives E. Deidre Pribram: An Individual of Feeling: Emotion, Gender, and Subjectivity in Historical Perspectives on Sensibility Kevin O’Neill: ‘Pale & Dejected Exhausted by the Waste of Sorrow’: Courtship and the Expression of Emotion, Mary Shackleton, 1783-1791 Odette Clarke: Divine Providence and Resignation: The Role of Religion in the Management of the Emotions of the Anglo-Irish Countess of Dunraven, Caroline Wyndham-Quin (1790-1870) Literary Perspectives Kristine Steenbergh: Emotion, Performance and Gender in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Evert Jan van Leeuwen: Monstrous Masculinity and Emotional Torture in William Godwin’s Fleetwood; or, the New Man of Feeling Sinéad McDermott: The Double Wound: Shame and Trauma in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan Ingrid Hotz-Davies: Quentin Crisp, Camp and the Art of Shamelessness Social Science Perspectives Abigail Locke: The Social Psychologising of Emotion and Gender: A Critical Perspective Breda Gray: Empathy, Emotion and Feminist Solidarities Contributors Index
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Manchester University Press Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe
Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines the performance and role of scientific experts in modern European courts of law and police investigations. It discusses cases from criminal, civil and international law to parse the impact of forensic evidence and expertise in different European countries. The contributors show how modern forensic science and technology are inextricably entangled with political ideology, gender norms and changes in the law and legal systems. Discussing fascinating case studies, they highlight how the ideology of authoritarian and liberal regimes has affected the practical enactment of forensic expertise. They also emphasise the influence of images of masculinity and femininity on the performance of experts and on their assessment of evidence, victims and perpetrators. This book is an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Willemijn Ruberg1 Blood will out: blood typing, forensic culture and gender in a 1950s Scottish paternity case — Alison Adam2 A culture of testimony: the importance of ‘speaking witnesses’ in Dutch sexual crimes investigations and trials, 1930-1960 — Lara Bergers3 The making of evidence after mass violence: Forensics in the aftermath of the Second World War — Taline Garibian4 Teaching Grossian criminalistics in Imperial Germany — Heather Wolffram5 Sober suits, bowler hats and white lab coats: Enclothed impartiality and the tailoring of a bourgeois expert persona in British courtrooms, 1920-60 — Pauline Dirven6 Reassessing the legacy of Cesare Lombroso: Criminal anthropology in the expert testimony of Mario Carrara, 1910-30 — Franco Orlandi7 Expert evidence and uncertainty in English infanticide trials, c. 1725-1945 — Rachel Dixon and Tony Ward8 Forensic physicians and the Francoist prosecution of infanticide, c. 1939-1969: The case of the haemorrhage of the umbilical cord as cause of death — Sara Serrano Martínez9 Doing law, psychiatric expertise and ‘crimes of passion’ in the Netherlands and Russia in the twentieth century — Volha Parfenchyk and Willemijn Ruberg10 A culture of consensus: Organising expertise in Norwegian forensic psychiatry, late nineteenth to early twentieth century — Svein Atle Skålevåg11 The 'key’ to the crime: Criminal cases and the projection of expectations about forensic DNA technologies in the Portuguese press — Filipe SantosIndex
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