A centre of wonders : the body in early America /
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 "...
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press
2001.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv1nhkcx |
Table of Contents:
- "The earthly frame, a minute fabrick, a centre of wonders" / Janet Moore Lindman, Michele Lise Tarter
- Witchcraft, bodily affliction, and domestic space in seventeenth-century New England / Robert Blair St. George
- Food, assimilation, and the malleability of the human body in early Virginia / Trudy Eden
- "Civilized" bodies and the "savage" environment of early New Plymouth / Martha L. Finch
- The body politic and the body somatic / Jacquelyn C. Miller
- Murderous uncleanness / Kathleen M. Brown
- "Clean of blood, without stain or mixture" / Jennifer M. Spear
- A "doctrine of signatures" / Susan M. Stabile
- Nursing fathers and brides of Christ / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
- Quaking in the light / Michele Lise Tarter
- "Antic deportments and Indian postures" / Alice Nash
- The body Baptist / Janet Moore Lindman
- Hannah Duston's bodies / Teresa A. Toulouse
- Body language / Nancy Shoemaker
- Emancipation and the em-bodiment of "race" / Joanne Pope Melish
- The problematics of absence / Todd D. Smith.