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Body image

Here are entered works on the visual, mental, or memory image of one's own body or someone else's, and one's attitudes about that image. Works on the overall pattern of one's direct or sensory awareness of the spatial aspect of one's body are entered under Body schema.

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• Imagery (Psychology)
• Mind and body
• Personality
• Self-perception
• Person schemas

• Human body

• Image, Body

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• No Archive Will Restore You (Earth; Punctum Books, c2018), by Julietta Singh (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• Warfare in the Human Body: Essays on Method, Malignity, Repair and Allied Subjects (New York: E. P. Dutton Co., c1921), by Morley Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018), by Ari Larissa Heinrich (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2014), ed. by Finn Stepputat (PDF files with commentary at Manchester Openhive)

• Conspicuous Bodies: Provincial Belief and the Making of Joyce and Rushdie (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jean Kane (PDF at Ohio State)

• Home Bodies: Tactile Experience in Domestic Space (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by James Krasner (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature: Cognition, Kinesis, and the Sacred (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Sarah Brazil (PDF with commentary at wmich.edu)
• Conspicuous Bodies: Provincial Belief and the Making of Joyce and Rushdie (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jean Kane (PDF at Ohio State)
• An American Body-Politic: A Deleuzian Approach (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2010), by Bernd Herzogenrath (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2010), by Julia C. Bullock (PDF with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)
• Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Margo Natalie Crawford (PDF at Ohio State)
• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Peter Melville Logan (HTML at UC Press)
• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• Stephen and Bloom at Life's Feast: Alimentary Symbolism and the Creative Process in James Joyce's "Ulysses" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Lindsey Tucker (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), ed. by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić (PDF at Ohio State)

• How and When to Be Your Own Doctor (1997), by Isabelle A. Moser and Steve Solomon
  • PDF with commentary at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Personal and Community Health (6th edition; St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Co., 1942), by C. E. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Secret of Keeping Fit: An Easy and Sure Way to Better health (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1941), by Arthur A. McGovern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Emanation Body (Los Angeles: J. Seton, 1918), by Julia Seton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Health and Education, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• Health, Beauty, and the Toilet: Letters to Ladies From a Lady Doctor (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1886), by Anna Bonus Kingsford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions (Boston: School of Expression, c1915), by S. S. Curry
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Longevity: The Means of Prolonging Life After Middle Age (London: H. S. King and Co., 1874), by John Gardner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Cornell
• Maintaining Health, by Rasmus Larssen Alsaker (Gutenberg text)
• Out-Door Papers, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
• The Book of Life (2 volumes in 1; Pasadena, CA: The author, c1922), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book of Life: Mind and Body (includes "Love and Society" volume; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c1922), by Upton Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Health and Happiness: An Elementary Text Book of Personal Hygiene and Physiology Based on Catholic Principles (New York: J. F. Wagner; London: B. Herder, c1922), by Francis J. Dore
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Health in the House: Twenty-Five Lectures on Elementary Physiology in Its Application to the Daily Wants of Man and Animals, Delivered to the Wives and Children of Working-Men in Leeds and Saltaire (eighth edition), by Catherine M. Buckton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hygienic Physiology, With Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics: Being a Revised Edition of the Fourteen Weeks in Human Physiology (edited for the use of schools; 1889), by Joel Dorman Steele (Gutenberg text)
• Occult Principles of Health and Healing, by Max Heindel (HTML at rosicrucian.com)
• Cure Yourself (third edition; Los Angeles: National Diet and Health Association of America, c1929), by Paul C. Bragg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies: Contemplative Writing Pedagogy (c2015), by Christy I. Wenger (PDF and Epub at Colorado State)
• The Clever Body (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2006), by Gabor Csepregi (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Whole Earth Inner Space (electronic edition, 2000), by Christopher Carter Humphrey (HTML at Wayback Machine; text may be obscured by domain-squatter's ad)
• Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by David Ray Griffin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Matter and Memory (London: G. Allen and Unwin; New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Henri Bergson, trans. by Nancy Margaret Paul and M. E. Dowson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Body and Mind: An Inquiry into Their Connection and Mutual Influence, Specially in Reference to Mental Disorders (enlarged and revised edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Henry Maudsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mind as a Cause and Cure of Disease, Presented From a Medical, Scientific and Religious Point of View (Chicago: The author, 1914), by Eli Beers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Vom Schaltwerk der Gedanken: Neue Einsichten und Betrachtungen über die Seele (in German; Berlin: S. Fischer, c1916), by Carl Ludwig Schleich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Skin Deep: A Mind/Body Program for Healthy Skin (revised and expanded edition, 1992), by Ted A. Grossbart and Carl Sherman (PDF at grossbart.com)
• The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1933), by Ralph Waldo Trine (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit (New York: Dodge Pub. Co., c1917), by Ralph Waldo Trine (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Influence of Joy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1916), by George Van Ness Dearborn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of Truth, by John Abercrombie (page images at MOA)
• The Master Mind, by Theron Q. Dumont (HTML with commentary at psitek.net)
• The Nature of Mind and Human Automatism (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1885), by Morton Prince (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life: Being Several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-Comical, Poetical, Romanicical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral (second edition; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1671), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Physiology of Faith and Fear: or, The Mind in Health and Disease (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by William S. Sadler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Principles of Mental Physiology: With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions (London: H. S. King and Co., 1875), by William Benjamin Carpenter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rational Living: Some Practical Inferences from Modern Psychology (New York and London: Macmillan, 1912), by Henry Churchill King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Foundations of Personality, by Abraham Myerson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lectures and Essays (third edition, two volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1901), by William Kingdon Clifford, ed. by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: PDF at archive.org
• The Mysterious Matter of Mind, by Arthur C. Custance and Lee Edward Travis (HTML at custance.org)
• The Subject of Consciousness, by Cedric Oliver Evans (HTML at mentalstates.net)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.