Le jeûne et le corps affamé

Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 - 2010

The aim of this website, the workshop and the ongoing seminar series is to bring together experts from a variety of fields, including literature, history of medicine, psychology and gender studies to provoke interdisciplinary discussion of the ways in which the creation of more diverse histories of bodily damage in the nineteenth century and beyond might open up wider concerns.

Next Event:
Thursday 28th June 2012 6.30PMFasting and the Famished Body: Disordered Eating and the Gendering of Self-StarvationA panel discussion funded by the Wellcome Trust and the University of the West of England's Gender Studies Research Group at The Watershed in Bristol, with Charlotte Boyce, Debra Ferreday, Helen Malson and Neula Kerr-Boyle.

http://damagingthebody.org/current-events/