Emotional bodies : the historical performativity of emotions / edited by Dolores Martín-Moruno and Beatriz Pichel.

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Introduction -- Part I: Diseased Bodies under Construction -- 1. Hysteria or Tetanus?: Ambivalent Embodiments and the Authenticity of Pain / Rob Boddice -- 2. The Criminal of Passion: Its Construction in Italian Legal and Medical Discourses, 1860s–1920s / Gian Marco Vidor -- 3. Locating Cancer: Body Image and Emotions from a Psychosomatic Perspective (1950–1959) / Pilar León-Sanz -- Part II: Performing Emotional Bodies -- 4. The Language of Children’s Pain (1870–1900) / Leticia Fernández-Fontecha -- 5. Photographing the Emotional Body: The Question of Expressions in the Theater and the Psychological Sciences / Beatriz Pichel -- 6. Yolanda: Youth, Heroin, and AIDS through the Lens of Photographic Practices / María Rosón -- Part III: Making Social Bodies -- 7. Making a Collective Emotional Body: Francis of Assisi Celebrating Christmas in Greccio (1223) / Piroska Nagy -- 8. Fearful Female Bodies: The Pétroleuses of the Paris Commune / Dolores Martín-Moruno -- Part IV: Humanitarian Bodies in Action -- 9. Performing Compassion in Wartime: Humanitarian Narratives in the Spanish Civil Wars of the 1870s / Jon Arrizabalaga -- 10. Humanitarian Emotions through History: Imaging Suffering and Performing Aid / Emma Hutchinson -- 11. Compassion Fatigue: The Changing Nature of Humanitarian Emotions / Bertrand Taithe -- Afterword

"What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further studying the materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions' performative nature. Drawing on diverse sources and wide-ranging theoretical approaches, they illuminate how various persons and groups-patients, criminals, medieval religious communities, revolutionary crowds, and humanitarian agencies-perform emotional practices. A section devoted to medical history examines individual bodies while a section of social and political histories studies the emergence of collective bodies. Contributors: Jon Arrizabalaga, Rob Boddice, Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Emma Hutchison, Dolores Martín-Moruno, Piroska Nagy, Beatriz Pichel, María Rosón, Pilar León-Sanz, Bertrand Taithe, and Gian Marco Vidor"-- Provided by publisher.