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Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to
understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically
improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its
kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and
their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century.
Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to
understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically
improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its
kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and
their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century. Using
a wide range of primary sources, she examines the ways in which
knowledge about breast cancer was shared through networks of advice
that patients formed with fellow sufferers. By focusing on the
women who struggled with the disease as well as the doctors that
treated them, much is revealed about early modern attitudes to
cancer and how patients experienced - and were considered to
experience - the cancerous body.
Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are
conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual
currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions.
They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and
technology, as well as social and spatial constructs. They are also
always gendered and contested spaces. This volume, the last from
the Gender in the European Town (GENETON) project, approaches life
in the European town over time and across class and national
boundaries. Through contextualized case studies, it provides
scholars and students with new research-snapshots-of contemporary
physical and built environments that explores how contemporary
urban residents experienced and deployed gendered urban spaces over
an important period of modernization.
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place
for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates
on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society
of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and
orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic
luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This
volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of
social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in
consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what
constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status,
often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of
luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production,
distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate
in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender
roles.
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place
for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates
on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society
of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and
orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic
luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This
volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of
social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in
consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what
constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status,
often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of
luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production,
distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate
in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender
roles.
Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are
conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual
currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions.
They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and
technology, as well as social and spatial constructs. They are also
always gendered and contested spaces. This volume, the last from
the Gender in the European Town (GENETON) project, approaches life
in the European town over time and across class and national
boundaries. Through contextualized case studies, it provides
scholars and students with new research-snapshots-of contemporary
physical and built environments that explores how contemporary
urban residents experienced and deployed gendered urban spaces over
an important period of modernization.
The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual
desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures. This
collection brings together a group of experts from a variety of
disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the
transformation of sexual ideas, attitudes, and practices in
premodern Europe. Among the topics considered are the visibility of
sexual offenses and the construction of passions; the geographical
range extends to Great Britain, with extended attention also to
France as well as Northern and Eastern Europe. The result is a
groundbreaking volume that adds significantly to our understanding
of premodern European history, history of sexualities, gender
studies, religious history, and many other fields.
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