Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. This text discusses the work of three novelists - M.E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and 'Ouida' - within this historical context.
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. Anxious critics traced the i…
Feminist Perspectives on the Body is an accessible, up-to-date book which bridges the gap between existing high level, theoretical texts and the growing number of people interested in gaining a basic understanding of the key concepts involved.
Feminist Perspectives on the Body is an accessible, up-to-date book which bridges the gap between existing high level, theoretical texts and the growing number of people interested in gaining a basic understanding of the key concepts involved.
This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which Atkins justifies through an explication of how the structures of human …
"In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array…
Defects: engendering the modern body
by Nussbaum, Felicity, Deutsch, Helen
fromCorporealities
Defects: engendering the modern body
by Nussbaum, Felicity, Deutsch, Helen
fromCorporealities
"Defects" brings together essays on the emergence of the concept of monstrosity in the eighteenth century and the ways it paralleled the emergence of notions of sexual difference. Women, declared a mid-eighteenth-century vindication, have been regarded since Aristotle as deforme…
Thinking bodies
by MacCannell, Juliet Flower, Zakarin, Laura
fromIrvine studies in the humanities
The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis. The contributors here consider the body in thought at the …
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Analyses how our culture elaborates our naturally evolved bodies by calling upon the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body. He explains how we make our bodies foreign to ourselves and envisages what they may become."--Publisher.
Toward a new ethical framework: Watsuji in dialogue with the west -- The embodied self -- Toward an embodied ethics of care -- Body, self and ethics: Watsuji and Irigaray.