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Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This collection of essays offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently embedded in the art historical discourse of the European Renaissance. It revisits ‘canonical'forms of visual culture, such as painting, sculpture and a number of emblematic manuscripts. The contributors focus on one image—either actual or thematic—and examine it against its historiographic assumptions. Through the use of interdisciplinary approaches, the essays propose to unmask the ideology(ies) of representation of sexuality and suggest a richer image of the ever-shifting identities of gender. The collection focuses on the Italian Renaissance, but also includes case studies from Germany and France.

Eighteenth-century debates continue to set the terms of modern day discussions on how'nature and nurture'shape sex and gender. Current dialogues - from the tension between'real'and'ideal'bodies, to how nature and society shape sexual difference - date back to the early modern period. Debating Sex and Gender is an innovative study of the creation of a two-sex model of human sexuality based on different genitalia within Spain, reflecting the enlightened quest to promote social reproduction and stability. Drawing on primary sources such as medical treatises and legal literature, Vicente traces the lives of individuals whose ambiguous sex and gender made them examples for physicians, legislators and educators for how nature, family upbringing, education, and the social environment shaped an individual's sex. This book brings together insights from the histories of sexuality, medicine and the law to shed new light on this timely and important field of study.

Étendu à la Belgique, à la Suisse et au Québec, ce Dictionnaire du Cinéma français parcourt un large champ temporel et spatial.D'Adjani (Isabelle) à Z (film de Costa-Gavras), près de 400 articles empruntés à l'Encyclopædia Universalis retracent le chemin parcouru depuis les frères Lumière pour donner naissance à cette « nébuleuse en expansion permanente » qu'est le cinéma français. Les réalisateurs et metteurs en scène y ont la plus grande part, mais les comédiens et comédiennes, les techniciens, les producteurs, les écoles ne sont pas oubliés dans une table des matières où brillent les noms des meilleurs experts et des spécialistes les plus reconnus (Claude Beylie, Jean Collet, Alain Garel, Joël Magny, René Prédal, Noël Simsolo…). Pour l'amateur, l'étudiant, le professionnel, ce Dictionnaire du Cinéma français est une mine inépuisable d'aperçus éclairants et d'informations sûres.

Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches'energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body. This'one-sex model'of the human body was replaced during the Enlightenment with a model of two opposite sexes. However, both models are inadequate for a theological or a secular understanding of the sexed body. In this innovative work, Adrian Thatcher envisages relations between women and men no longer blighted by long-term patriarchy, androcentrism and sexism in church and world, but redeemed from these structural sins by the grace of Jesus Christ. Dissected into two parts, Part One explains the legacy of both the one-sex and two-sex theories. It uncovers the one-sex theory and its assumptions, and indicates its presence in early Christian thought. It then describes what happened in our social, intellectual and theological history, which leaves us thinking that there are two sexes. In Part Two, Thatcher contributes to an emerging theology of gender in which women and men are fully and equally valued, and in which sexual difference (insofar as it exists at all), is capable of transformation into joyful communion, reflecting the very life of God the Holy Trinity. He exposes the reliance of much Church and theological teaching about sex and gender either on biblical proof texts or upon the language and nomenclature of late modernity, rather than upon considerations of Theology and Christology. Thatcher also indicates how Theology and Christology, in the area of gender, envisions the redemption of human relationships.

Luna Gertrud Steiner unternimmt einen weiträumigen Streifzug durch die Geschichte der Psychotherapie und deren Vorläufer. Vorrangig erkundet sie, warum das Konzept Seele so alt, die Seelenkunde aber so jung ist, und warum die griechischen Philosophen und das Altertum insgesamt näher an einer ‚Psychologie‘ waren als je die christlich-klerikal dominierten Jahre danach. Ihre Thesen gründet sie auf die ‚psychiatrische‘ Krankheitslehre Barthélemy Pardoux‘ (Perdulcis‘) De morbis animi (~1610). Diesen Text, den sie in Übersetzung vorlegt, arbeitete sie diskursanalytisch auf, wodurch die Kulturabhängigkeit von Diagnostik und Therapeutik einmal mehr ans Licht tritt. Ihren an der Historie geschärften Blick dehnt die Verfasserin schließlich auf Charakteristika der gegenwärtigen Psychotherapielandschaft aus.

These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem—and one that, originally, was applied to men as often as to women. In On Hysteria, Sabine Arnaud traces the creation and rise of hysteria, from its invention in the eighteenth century through nineteenth-century therapeutic practice. Hysteria took shape, she shows, as a predominantly aristocratic malady, only beginning to cross class boundaries (and be limited to women) during the French Revolution. Unlike most studies of the role and status of medicine and its categories in this period, On Hysteria focuses not on institutions but on narrative strategies and writing—the ways that texts in a wide range of genres helped to build knowledge through misinterpretation and recontextualized citation. Powerfully interdisciplinary, and offering access to rare historical material for the first time in English, On Hysteria will speak to scholars in a wide range of fields, including the history of science, French studies, and comparative literature.

Cet ouvrage rassemble une quinzaine de contributions à l'histoire de la psychiatrie par un de ses meilleurs spécialistes. Le lecteur découvrira, de la Renaissance à l'époque contemporaine, une série d'études allant de la mélancolie décrite par Du Laurens, à la découverte du Lagarctil, premier neuroleptique de la révolution psychopharmacologique. Sont abordés l'oeuvre de Pinel, fondateur de la psychiatrie moderne, Georget et Bayle, ses élèves directs, le magnétisme animal, l'importance de la découverte freudienne, sans omettre le grand Kraepelin...

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In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Katherine Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France.The reigns of child kings loosened the normative structure in which adult males headed the body politic, setting the stage for innovative claims to authority made on gendered terms. When assuming the regency, Catherine de Médicis presented herself as dutiful mother, devoted widow, and benign peacemaker, masking her political power. In subsequent regencies, Marie de Médicis and Anne of Austria developed strategies that naturalized a regendering of political structures. They succeeded so thoroughly that Philippe d'Orleans found that this rhetoric at first supported but ultimately undermined his authority. Regencies demonstrated that power did not necessarily work from the places, bodies, or genders in which it was presumed to reside.While broadening the terms of monarchy, regencies involving complex negotiations among child kings, queen mothers, and royal uncles made clear that the state continued regardless of the king—a point not lost on the Revolutionaries or irrelevant to the fate of Marie-Antoinette.