The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
In: Routledge Studies in Cultural History Ser. v.72
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 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 -- List of Contributors -- Index.