History of the body. In 3 volumes. Volume 3. Change of gaze. XX century

The three -volume "History of the Body", written by French, British and American anthropologists and cultural historians, comprehensively considers bodily practices and the representative of the body in Europe - from the Renaissance to our time. The third volume covers the XX century in which the human body has become perhaps the main object that undergoes unprecedented suffering and at the same time enjoying unprecedented attention. Parallel processes occur: crowding out and at the same time acceptance of bodily anomalies, the transformation of an individual, unique body into a slight element of mass, into the food of war and political repression - and along with this, sexual and creative emancipation, "professionalization" of a sports and cinematic body, creating it creating it. cult. This volume tells how the 20th century radically changed the perception of the body.
2nd edition