Louise Foxcroft: 4 books
Calories and Corsets
A history of dieting over two thousand years
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what...
Hot Flushes, Cold Science
A History of the Modern Menopause
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
For over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, via the medical literature of the eighteenth century, to up-to-the-minute...
by Louise Foxcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
"Sexuality" may be an eighteenth-century coinage, but as this new study by award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, it has fascinated and frightened us for millennia.
From proscription to prescription, and from humour to anxiety, Sexuality: All That Matters explores the vast sex-scape...
The Making of Addiction
The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that...