Schmerz

edited by Heidrun Zettelbauer, Maria Fritsche and Bozena Choluj

Book cover: Schmerz

Extent: 190 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 2022)

ISBN: 9783847114543

6.1 x 9.13 inches

Price: $32.00

Out of stock

Das Themenheft untersucht Schmerzerfahrungen in der Geschichte. Es illustriert anhand von Fallbeispielen aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, wie Geschlecht und weitere soziale Differenzen das Erleben sowie die Ausdrucksformen und Deutungen von Schmerz pragten.


Pain, although a historical constant, is culturally and temporally specific. Cultural gender orders influence what is perceived as painful and how pain is expressed, communicated and interpreted. The articles collected in this special issue illustrate the interlinkage of gender and pain. The case studies address a number of topics, from deliberately self-inflicted pain in psychiatric contexts and as queer-feminist art practice to interpretations of birth pain by male physicians to female Greek mourning rituals and a Jewish photographer’s attempt to deal artistically with the trauma of the Holocaust. The focus is on Europe in the 19th and 20th century.

  • Edited by Bozena Choluj
  • Edited by Maria Fritsche
  • Edited by Heidrun Zettelbauer