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Emotional bodies : the historical performativity of emotions /
"What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-ne...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | History of emotions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Diseased Bodies under Construction
- 1. Hysteria or Tetanus? Ambivalent Embodiments and the Authenticity of Pain
- 2. The Criminal of Passion: Its Construction in Italian Legal and Medical Discourses, 1860s-1920s
- 3. Locating Cancer: Body Image and Emotions from a Psychosomatic Perspective (1950-1959)
- Part II. Performing Emotional Bodies
- 4. The Language of Children's Pain (1870-1900)
- 5. Photographing the Emotional Body: The Question of Expressions in the Theater and the Psychological Sciences
- 6. Yolanda: Youth, Heroin, and AIDS through the Lens of Photographic Practices
- Part III. Making Social Bodies
- 7. Making a Collective Emotional Body: Francis of Assisi Celebrating Christmas in Greccio (1223)
- 8. Fearful Female Bodies: The Pétroleuses of the Paris Commune
- Part IV. Humanitarian Bodies in Action
- 9. Performing Compassion in Wartime: Humanitarian Narratives in the Spanish Civil Wars of the 1870s
- 10. Humanitarian Emotions through History: Imaging Suffering and Performing Aid
- 11. Compassion Fatigue: The Changing Nature of Humanitarian Emotions
- Afterword
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover