Nineteen fifty-six: excerpts from the diary of Cornelia Benn, 16 / Glenda Adams -- Theoretical developments in the sociology of the body / Bryan Turner -- recyling femininity: old ladies and new women / Penny Russell -- Anatomical wax museums in Melbourne, 1861-1887 / Mimi Colligan -- Female bodies at work: gender & the re-forming of colonial hospitals / Alison Bashford -- Self-starvation and binge-purging: embodied selfhood/sainthood / Liz Eckermann -- Embodying freedom: Gandhi and the body of the public man in India / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- 'Every grain is standing for itself': African-American style in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Shane White and Graham White -- 'Dressing up': masquerade in the Heidelberg school / Leigh Astbury -- Bodily excellence is displayed: life models and the nude in Melbourne and Sydney, c. 1880-1940 / Juliet Peers
Notes
"Based on a conference held at the Victoria Hotel in June 1993"-- editorial note