| A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance Contributor(s): Kalof, Linda (Editor), Bynum, William (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472554647 ISBN-13: 9781472554642 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $40.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Science | Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| Series: Cultural Histories |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.6" W x 9.5" (1.50 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Renaissance was a time of immense change in the social, political, economic, intellectual, and artistic arenas of the Western world.The cultural construction of the human body occupied a pivotal role in those transformations. The social and cultural meanings of embodiment revolutionized the intellectual, political, and emotional ideologies of the period. Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume examines the flexible and shifting categories of the body at an unparalleled time of growth in geographical exploration, science, technology, and commerce. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kalof, Linda: - Linda Kalof is Professor in the Dept. of Sociology at Michigan State University. She is author of Looking at Animals in Human History and co-editor of The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values and the forthcoming major multi-volume works, A Cultural History of Animals and A Cultural History of the Human Body. |