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Gender Studies

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The Culture of the Body

Genealogies of Modernity

By Dalia Judovitz
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments

Stately Bodies

Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

By Adriana Cavarero
Translated by Robert de Lucca & Deanna Shemek
Subjects: Gender Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself

Staging Masculinity

The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World

By Erik Gunderson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"

Cutting the Body

Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis

By Eliane DalMolin
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the notion of the cut in poetry, film, and psychoanalysis and how it might be linked to male creativity

The Body and Physical Difference

Discourses of Disability

Edited by David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality

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