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Author:   Justyna Jajszczok ,  Aleksandra Musiał
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367671242

ISBN 10:   0367671247
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction: ""The Past is Written on My Body"": Bodies and History Part I: The Liminal Body 1. Fortunio Liceti’s Strategic Use of Lusus Naturae in De Monstris (1634–1665) and the Self-Assured Semiology of Naturalized Early Modern Science 2. A Tlaxcalan Midwife’s Toolkit: The Body, Medicine, Childbirth, and Contact Zone in Early to Mid-Colonial New Spain 3. Ecstasies, Stigmata, and Visions: Body and Sanctity in La Civiltà Cattolica in the Age of Positivism (1888–1890) Part II: The Modern Body 4. Making the Body Productive/Making ""the Body"" Productive 5. Corpulence, Modernity, and Transcendence in the Early Twentieth Century Part III: The Visual Body 6. The Visual Politics of the Body in Germany Between the Two World Wars 7. Representing AIDS: KS Lesions, US Visual Culture, and the Body as Canvas (1983–1993) Part IV: The Punished Body 8. The Criminal’s Hair: Forensic Practices (1600–1945) 9. Citizen to Convict: The Consumption of the Body in the Age of Prisoner Reentry Part V: The Entangled Body 10. Aesth/ethical Bodies: Bracha Ettinger’s Eurydices and the Encounter with the Other’s History 11. The King’s Four Bodies: Kantorowicz, Schmitt, Henry, and Hal"

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Justyna Jajszczok is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Aleksandra Musiał is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

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