The Body, Gender and Culture

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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.

Send us a Proposal

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 editor: Professor LA Botelho (botelho@iup.edu). Submissions should also be sent to the commissioning editor for this series, Daire Carr (dcarr@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).

Published titles

• Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India
• Paracelsus’s Theory of Embodiment : Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe

Forthcoming titles

• The Life of Madame Necker: Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon

  Sonja Boon

  (March 2011)
• Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine

  Daniel Schäfer

  (January 2011)
• The Prostitute's Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain

  Nina Attwood

  (December 2010)
• Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality

  Editors: Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis

  (September 2011)
• Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 1680–1810

  Lynn Sorge-English

  (March 2011)

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