Subjects
The Body, Gender and Culture
Series Editors: Lynn Botelho and Elizabeth Hurren
Pickering & Chatto is pleased to announce a new monograph series The Body, Gender, and Culture. The purpose of this series is to publish high quality research projects that explore ‘the body’ as a site of critical enquiry. The series extends from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. It is particularly concerned with ‘the body’ as the point of intersection between gender, culture and society. The body is a social and cultural construction, and the series investigates the various narratives engendered by this process of becoming. It also explores how the body mediates between self and society in the process of determining our relationship to the world around us.
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. Projects that examine issues relating to the aging body, and the masculine body are also greatly welcomed.
Proposals should be sent to the following series editors: Professor LA Botelho (botelho@iup.edu); Dr Elizabeth Hurren (ehurren@brookes.ac.uk). Submissions should also be sent to the commissioning editor for this series, Mirabelle Boateng (mboateng@pickeringchatto.co.uk).
Readership
Given the broad theoretical construct of such monographs, this series has a broad, cross-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
L A 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, is currently editing for Pickering & Chatto an eight-volume major works edition of rare sources, entitled The History of Old Age, 1600–1800 (2008–9).
Elizabeth T Hurren is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Protesting About Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, c. 1870-1914, (2006) and co-editor with A Gestrich, S A King and L Raphael of Poverty and the Development of Health Care in Modern Europe (2006).
Published titles
Forthcoming titles
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Paracelsus’s Theory of Embodiment:
Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe
Amy Eisen Cislo
(June 2010)
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