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Schmerz - Zettelbauer, Heidrun (Editor), and Fritsche, Maria (Editor), and Choluj, Bozena (Editor)
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Pain, although a historical constant, is culturally and temporally specific. Cultural gender orders influence what is perceived as painful and how pain is expressed, communicated and interpreted. The articles collected in this special issue illustrate the interlinkage of gender and pain. The case studies address a number of topics, from deliberately self-inflicted pain in psychiatric contexts and as queer-feminist art practice to interpretations of birth pain by male physicians to female Greek mourning rituals and a Jewish ...

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Schmerz 2022, V&R Unipress, Goettingen

ISBN-13: 9783847114543

German

Trade paperback