Routledge companion to women, sex, and gender in the early British colonial world /

All essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude, in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction or preparation for death. They attend to how the body's transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it. And they show how a...

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Other Authors: Coles, Kimberly Anne, 1966- (Editor), Keller, Eve, 1960- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
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Summary:All essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude, in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction or preparation for death. They attend to how the body's transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it. And they show how apprehension of the body, in social and political terms, gives it shape.
Physical Description:xv, 330 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781472479945
1472479947