Writing on the Body

by Conboy, Katie

• ISBN13: 9780231105453
• ISBN10: 0231105452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Modern Historiographyis the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era. In a unique overview of modern historiography, the book includes surveys on the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment; Romanticism; the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought; the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World; theAnnalesschool in France; and the effects of the repression and exile of the inter-war years and the Post-War 'moods.'Modern Historiographyprovides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 11
	p. 13
Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies Menstruation and Menopause	p. 36
Rape: on Coercion and Consent	p. 53
Mothers, Monsters, and Machines	p. 78
Corporeal Representation In/And the Body Politic	p. 88
The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity	p. 106
Bodies in Production	p. 111
Selling Hot Pussy	p. 113
Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power	p. 151
On Being the Object of Property	p. 172
Film and the Masquerade	p. 192
The Body and Cinema	p. 206
Cinema and the Dark Continent Race and Gender in Popular Film	p. 226
The Body Speaks	p. 229
Ain't I a Woman?	p. 231
La Conciencia Dela Mestiza	p. 246
This Sex Which is Not One	p. 248
Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism the Case of Anna O	p. 273
Uses of the Erotic	p. 277
The Persistence of Vision	p. 292
Carnal Acts	p. 305
Body on Stage	p. 307
One is Not Born a Woman	p. 309
Female Grotesques	p. 333
The Empire Strikes Back	p. 355
A Provoking Agent the Pornography and Performance Art of Annie Sprinkle	p. 377
Tracking the Vampire	p. 380
Works Cited	p. 399
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution	p. 415
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 419
About the Contributors	p. 427
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