The Body, Gender and Culture

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Just as one’s life experience is ‘written on the body’, so too does society write its collective norms and aspirations on its conception of the physical body. ‘The body’, then as now, 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 recognising 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 exciting new series showcases the wide variety of work being done on the body, gender, and culture from across a wide geographical area, encompassing both European and non-European centres, and drawing upon a long chronological span, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Submissions are invited from established scholars, as well as advanced PhD and post-doctoral candidates, working on the body in history in its most inclusive sense. Works accepted into the seies will be scholarly monographs (80–100,000 words) of high quality and originality, which, while they may focus on particular themes, persons or locations, will demonstrate an ability to address wider themes and concerns in this exciting and vibrant sub-discipline of historical writing.

Proposals should be sent (in hard copy and by electronic attachment) to one of the series editors: Professor L A Botelho, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of History, Keith Hall, Indiana, PA, 15705, USA (botelho@iup.edu); Dr Amy Froide, Department of History, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250, USA (froide@umbc.edu); or Dr Elizabeth Hurren, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, School of Arts and Humanities, Gypsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 OBP, UK (ehurren@brookes.ac.uk). The editors will require a detailed proposal of at least 8–10 pages (including chapter outlines), along with the text of a sample chapter. It is envisaged that contracts will be offered to the most promising authors on this basis.

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

• Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India

Forthcoming titles

• Paracelsus’s Theory of Embodiment: Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe

  Amy Eisen Cislo

  (June 2010)

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