The human body is always changing its meanings. Historical research
on this can draw on a host of specialisms. Historians, lettrists
and linguists contribute to this book a coherent little tumult of
perspectives: what was thinkable for pagan and Christian
Anglo-Saxons, and how far did the two really differ? Why did New
English Puritans stop addressing God as if He were their
breast-feeding Mother? How did Western colonisers' perspectives on
animals and on 'subject races' interact? How did Victorian and
Edwardian women's participation in sports grow? How transgressive
was the figure of the 'dandy'? What motivated late-Victorian panics
over prostitution, and on what terms were victims helped? Why, in
an increasingly 'democratic' age, did reactions to Britain's first
universal health-measure become a basis for cynicism about the
masses?Repeatedly, the rigidity of separation between male and
female fluctuated, as did the boundaries themselves. Sometimes, the
greater the rigidity, the less the sources may tell us of
resistance to them. But sometimes this can be inferred
indirectly.Better testimony than this volume to the liveliness and
variety of body-studies is hard to imagine.
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