Approaching Facial Difference - Past and Present

What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic, visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the heart of our historical and cultural narratives. This cutting-edge collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for humanities scholars working across history, literature and visual culture, as well as modern practitioners in education and psychology.

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• Authors: Emily Cock, Patricia Skinner, Patricia (Swansea University Skinner
• Assisted by: Emily Cock (Editor), Emily (Swansea University Cock (Editor), David H. Jones (Editor), Patricia Skinner (Editor), Patricia (Swansea University Skinner (Editor), Patricia (Swansea University College of Arts and Humanities Skinner (Editor), Garthine Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781350028296
• ISBN: 978-1-350-02829-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Facialities: Interdisciplinary; Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face; Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face; Facialities: Interdisciplinary
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history