The Body, Gender and Culture

Series Editor: Lynn Botelho

The body is a constructed artefact upon which society, law, religion, economics and medicine work to produce an understanding of the physical body that reveals as much about the role and nature of gender and culture as it does about the physical object itself. By recognizing this aspect of the human form, this series moves beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to capture the paradigm-shifting work being done at the crossroads between gender and cultural history.

This series showcases the wide variety of work being done on the body, gender and culture from across a wide geographical area and drawing upon a long chronological span up to the early twentieth century.

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In recognising both the constructed and symbolic nature of the body, this series aims to support and develop the work presently being done within this subject area. Proposals should be largely historical in methodological approach, and display a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship. Suitable submissions might address ‘the body’ in relation to one or more of its many contexts. Amongst others: literature, politics, religion, gender, visual culture, and imperialism. Of particular interest are proposals which explore thematic relations between the body and identity, the body and performance, or the body and medical culture.

We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

Proposals should be sent to the following series editor: Professor LA Botelho (botelho@iup.edu). Submissions should also be sent to the commissioning editor for this series, Ruth Ireland (rireland@pickeringchatto.co.uk).

For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.

Readership

Given the broad theoretical construct of such monographs, this series has a broad, interdisciplinary appeal that includes social and cultural historians; political and economic historians; as well as historians of medicine. Likewise, it is of concern to cultural and literary theorists. Finally, given the use of visual evidence in many studies, the series would also appeal to art historians. While the volumes will be scholarly works of primary research, they should be accessible to able undergraduates as well as postgraduate researchers and academics.

Editorial board

Lynn Botelho is a Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her main research interest is on ageing and old age in early modern England. She has written extensively on the subject, including Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500–1700 (2004); John Winthrop’s Worlds: England and New England, 1588–1649, with F Bremer, (2006); Power and Poverty: Old Age in Pre-Industrial Society, with S Ottaway and Kittredge (2002); and Women and Ageing in Britain since 1500, with P Thane (2000). She, with Susannah Ottaway, edited Pickering & Chatto's eight-volume major works edition, The History of Old Age, 1600–1800 (2008–9).

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