Barbara Duden

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Barbara Duden
Born (1942-08-27) August 27, 1942 (age 82)
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Medical historian, Scholar

Barbara Duden (born 1942 in Greifswald) is a German medical historian, scholar of gender studies, and emeritus professor of the University of Hannover. Her work figures significantly in the currents that established the body as a site for historical inquiry. She is one of the founders of the journal Courage, which was in publication from 1976 to 1984. [1] Courage primarily circulated in West Berlin where it played an extensive role in informing the women's movement at the time. Her father is also the great-grandson of the German philologist Konrad Duden.

Bibliography

  • The Woman Beneath the Skin. A doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany. Aus dem Deutschen von Thomas Dunlap. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA/ London 1991, ISBN   0-674-95403-3. [3] [4]
  • Disembodying Women. Perspectives on pregnancy and the unborn. Aus dem Deutschen von Lee Hoinacki. Harvard University Press, Cambridge/London 1993, ISBN   0-674-21267-3. [3] [5]

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References

  1. Goettle, Gabriele (2012). "Chapter 2: Vom Schwinden der Sinne: Körperhistorikerin". Der Augenblick: Reisen durch den unbekannten Alltag (in German). Antje Kunstmann. pp. 22–35. ISBN   9783888977992.
  2. Review of Geschichte unter der Haut: Lindemann, Mary (Summer 1989). Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 63 (2): 293–295. JSTOR   44451393.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  3. 1 2 Hull, Isabel V. (1995). "The Body as Historical Experience: Review of Recent Works by Barbara Duden". Central European History. 28 (1): 73–79. doi:10.1017/S0008938900011250. JSTOR   4546486.
  4. Reviews of The Woman Beneath the Skin: Laqueur, Thomas W. (Spring 1993). "Bodies of the Past". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 67 (1): 155–161. JSTOR   44444172.Wessling, Mary Nagle (Spring 1993). Journal of Social History. 26 (3): 682–684. doi:10.1353/jsh/26.3.682. JSTOR   3788657.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)van Herik, Judith (April 1993). The Journal of Religion. 73 (2): 303–304. JSTOR   1204931.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)Herminghouse, Patricia (Fall 1994). Signs. 20 (1): 196–200. doi:10.1086/494964. JSTOR   3174937.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. Reviews of Disembodying Women: Epstein, Julia (June 1994). The Women's Review of Books. 11 (9): 12–13. doi:10.2307/4021800. JSTOR   4021800.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)Franklin, Sarah (November 1994). Contemporary Sociology. 23 (6): 796–799. doi:10.2307/2076038. JSTOR   2076038.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)Martin, Emily (June 1996). Medical Anthropology Quarterly. New Series. 10 (2): 307–309. doi:10.1525/maq.1996.10.2.02a00150. JSTOR   649337.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)