The Body as Method? Reflections on the Place of the Body in Gender History.

This article offers a critical examination of the term 'body' as an ambiguous and elusive historical concept. The first part of the essay probes the often unspecific yet seductive invocation of the body in many recent historical studies and reflects on the methodological implications of placing bodi...

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Published in:Gender & History Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 499 - 514
Main Author: Canning, Kathleen
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Nov1999
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