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A full-bodied society /

"The human body is always changing its meanings. Historical research on this can draw on a host of specialisms. Historians, lettrists and linguists contribute to this book a coherent little tumult of perspectives: what was thinkable for pagan and Christian Anglo-Saxons, and how far did the two...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barrow, Logie, Poirier, François
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Body and Society in Pre-Norman England / Maria Eliferova
  • 'A Compleat Body of Divinity': Visions of Sexuality and the Body in Puritan New England / Astrid M. Fellner
  • Child Abuse and White Slavery in 19th-century Britain / Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz
  • Feminism versus Femininity: the Significance of Women's Sporting Dress in Britain (1860-1914) / Richard Sibley
  • Body, Size or Dress Matters: Representation of the Dandiacal Male Body in some fashionable 19th-century Novels / Gilbert Pham-Thanh
  • The Non-Human Colonial Subject: the Importance of Animal Bodies to British Imperialism / Sune Borkfelt
  • English Vaccinal Unworthiness of Democracy / Logie Barrow.