Publication

2017 - Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter

Language

English

Word Count

73,500 words, Guess

Page Count

294 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781787071018
  • ISBN-101787071014
  • Better World Books9781787071018
  • Open LibraryOL40443836M

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 {u2019}disability{u2019} 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."--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Variable Body in HistoryLang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter2017

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