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Das französischsprachige Theater der Spanischen Niederlande des 16. Jahrhunderts verhandelt an einem der Kreuzungspunkte der europäischen Kultur zahlreiche Umbrüche der Frühen Neuzeit. Ausgerichtet auf eine komplexe Identitätsdebatte aktualisiert das Theater ein Spiel, in dessen Mittelpunkt sinnenfreudige Körper stehen.

French language --- Theatrical science --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1500-1599 --- French drama --- Human body in literature --- Nationalism and literature --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- French literature --- History and criticism --- History --- French drama - Netherlands - 16th century - History and criticism --- Nationalism and literature - Netherlands - History - 16th century

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Throughout the history of all civilizations at least until very recently, the most fundamental values at the basis of societal organization and culture were determined and sanctified almost exclusively by men - including the values traditionally associated with women, such as corporeal beauty, purity, motherhood, or empathy. However, from the ancient times already, and increasingly toward the end of the second millennium, women have always found ways to overcome the limits set to them by the ...

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Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of male potency and the 'ability to perform' have long been mainstays of social, political, and artistic discourse and have often provoked spirited and partisan declarations on what it means to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerabilities to which his body is prone. Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a broad range of sources including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature, and the Modern novel.

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Lointaines héritières des amantes chantées par les élégiaques, les femmes que font revivre les poèmes latins tardifs en ont gardé la beauté et l'esprit. Tantôt volages et tantôt chastes, tantôt mères et tantôt vierges pures, elles incarnent une facette méconnue de l'Antiquité, celle d'une époque où l'héritage littéraire classique s'accorde encore harmonieusement avec les exigences de la foi nouvelle. Qu'ils soient païens ou chrétiens, les poètes se rejoignent plus souvent qu'on ne le pense dans une célébration commune du corps féminin, grâce à toutes les ressources d'une poétique de la profusion.

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The Female Body in Medicine and Literature features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. Gender studies and feminist approaches to literature have become busy and enlightening fields of enquiry in recent times, yet there remains no single work that fully analyses the impact of women's surgery on literary production or, conversely, ways in which literary trends have shaped the course of gynaecology and other branches of women's medicine. This book will demonstrate how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender. Medical textbooks and pamphlets have consistently cited fictional plots and characterisations as a way of communicating complex or 'sensitive' ideas. Essays explore historical accounts of clinical procedures, the relationship between gynaecology and psychology, and cultural conceptions of motherhood, fertility, and the female organisation through a broad range of texts including Henry More's Pre-Existency of the Soul (1659), Charlotte Brontë's Villette (1855), and Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues (1998). The Female Body in Medicine and Literature raises important theoretical questions on the relationship between popular culture, literature, and the growth of women's medicine and will be required reading for scholars in gender studies, literary studies and the history of medicine. This collection explores the complex intersections between literature and the medical treatment of women between 1600 and 2000. Employing a range of methodologies, it furthers our understanding of the development of women's medicine and comments on its wider cultural ramifications. Although there has been an increase in critical studies of women's medicine in recent years, this collection is a key contributor to that field because it draws together essays on a wide range of new topics from varying disciplines. It features, for instance, studies of motherhood, fertility, clinical procedure, and the relationship between gynaecology and psychology. Besides offering essays on subjects that have received a lack of critical attention, the essays presented here are truly interdisciplinary; they explore the complex links between gynaecology, art, language, and philosophy, and underscore how popular art forms have served an important function in the formation of 'women's science' prior to the twenty-first century. This book also demonstrates how a number of high-profile controversies were taken up and reworked by novelists, philosophers, and historians. Focusing on the vexed and convoluted story of women's medicine, this volume offers new ways of thinking about gender, science, and the Western imagination.

English literature --- Women in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Medicine in literature. --- Literature and medicine --- Gynecology --- Obstetrics --- Women's health services --- Medical care in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Maternal-fetal medicine --- Medicine --- Gynaecology --- Generative organs, Female --- Medicine and literature --- Health services for women --- Women --- Medical care --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Study and teaching --- Diseases --- Services for --- American literature --- Human Body. --- Medicine in Literature. --- Women. --- History