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Following World War I, cultural critics in France worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. This study shows how these critics atte

Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there—journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others

This book explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. It provides an accessible review of the contemporary soci

The overarching argument of "Reading the Social Body "is that the body is cultural rather than " natural." Some of the essays treat the social construction of b

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath