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EAN : 9782707134547
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 348
Size : 135 x 220 mm
Evolutions of hysteria. From the early 19th century to the First World War

Collection : L'espace de l'histoire
Release date : 23/01/2003

 

At the junction of medical, social, political, literary and religious history, this book describes hysteria in its complexity. A notion that questions the integrity of the self, inherited from the Enlightenment, as well the fluctuating boundaries between normal and pathological.
Edelman lays special emphasis on how the representation of the hysterical...

 

At the junction of medical, social, political, literary and religious history, this book describes hysteria in its complexity. A notion that questions the integrity of the self, inherited from the Enlightenment, as well the fluctuating boundaries between normal and pathological.
Edelman lays special emphasis on how the representation of the hysterical woman has a role in the emergence of the prevailing female model : That of wife and mother.

 

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EAN : 9782707134547
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 348
Size : 135 x 220 mm
La Découverte