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Emotional bodies : the historical performativity of emotions /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Martín-Moruno, Dolores (Editor), Pichel, Beatriz (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:History of emotions.
Subjects:
Emotions > Social aspects > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Diseased Bodies under Construction
  • 1. Hysteria or Tetanus? Ambivalent Embodiments and the Authenticity of Pain
  • 2. The Criminal of Passion: Its Construction in Italian Legal and Medical Discourses, 1860s-1920s
  • 3. Locating Cancer: Body Image and Emotions from a Psychosomatic Perspective (1950-1959)
  • Part II. Performing Emotional Bodies
  • 4. The Language of Children's Pain (1870-1900)
  • 5. Photographing the Emotional Body: The Question of Expressions in the Theater and the Psychological Sciences
  • 6. Yolanda: Youth, Heroin, and AIDS through the Lens of Photographic Practices
  • Part III. Making Social Bodies
  • 7. Making a Collective Emotional Body: Francis of Assisi Celebrating Christmas in Greccio (1223)
  • 8. Fearful Female Bodies: The Pétroleuses of the Paris Commune
  • Part IV. Humanitarian Bodies in Action
  • 9. Performing Compassion in Wartime: Humanitarian Narratives in the Spanish Civil Wars of the 1870s
  • 10. Humanitarian Emotions through History: Imaging Suffering and Performing Aid
  • 11. Compassion Fatigue: The Changing Nature of Humanitarian Emotions
  • Afterword
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover