Helen King

Immaculate Forms

A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Originally published in 2024 by Profile Books in Great Britain"--Title page verso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 151mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781541606531
• ISBN-10: 1541606531
• Artikelnr.: 70706055

Autorenporträt

Helen King is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at The Open University. She is an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England, where she is vice chair of Together, which campaigns on a range of discrimination issues including discrimination on the grounds of gender or sexuality. She is the author of Hippocrates’ Woman and has published extensively on the history of women’s health. She lives in Oxfordshire, England. 

Rezensionen

Lively and cheeky in tone, her book leaves you with the impression that, no matter what you believe to be obvious and natural about the female body, somebody in power once believed the exact opposite S. C. Cornell The New Yorker