Notes from Barbara Duden's The Woman beneath the Skin (1991)
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1. George Duby's "total sphere of history"
2. The presumption of an "evident" body
3. The origins of the "modern body"
4. Perspective and the art of fencing
5. "Professional distortion of the body"
6. Bachelard and "the imagination of matter"
7. The "history of corporeality"
8. The "magic of the body"
9. The loss of the body's "social vitality"
10. Policy and hygiene
11. The "body aura"
12. The "cultural hierarchy of the senses"
13. Pathological bodies
14. The flowing body
15. Gynecological medicine
16. Medically defined "health"
17. Where "health" comes from
18. Science and ideology
19. The Scientific Revolution's view of "nature"
20. The category "woman"
21. The body as experience
22. Reproduction and "the context of production"
23. de Sade and modern sexuality
24. Libido and energy
25. G. E. R. Lloyd
26. The "alphabetic mind"
27. Breathing, smell, and sight
28. The intangible body
29. Dallas as metaphor
30. Rudolf zur Lippe
31. On nakedness
32. Diagnoses and experience
33. Concealed bodies and bodily phenomena
34. The obsolete language of the experience of pain
35. What the sick of the past wanted from their doctors
36. "External flows" and "inner processes"
37. The eighteenth-century understanding of sex differences
38. Corporeality, culture, and sexual differentiation
39. "Unstructured osmotic space"
40. Motus and tonus
41. "Inner flux" and "outer flux"
42. Noncorporeal causes of illness (in the past)
43. Sufferings "stuck" in the body (in the past)
44. The experience of personal body pain, then and now
45. The modern objectified body vs. the body of the Middle Ages
46. Our sense of womanhood is confined by history
47. Duden's "body history"
48. The sociogenesis of modern corporeality
49. Understanding the body
50. Leibniz, Descartes, and pain

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