A collection of nine interdisciplinary essays looking at the social and cultural construction of the human body. Focusing on extreme, transgressive situations, practices, and their representations, the contributors tackle a wide range of issues about how the body was interpreted and understood in the early modern period.
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A collection of nine interdisciplinary essays looking at the social and cultural construction of the human body. Focusing on extreme, transgressive situations, practices, and their representations, the contributors tackle a wide range of issues about how the body was interpreted and understood in the early modern period.
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