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Free Download Janet Moore Lindman, "A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America"
English | ISBN: 0801487390 | 2001 | 296 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery.
The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources―including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories―they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways.
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