Humanity in the Arts

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Mellor, Philip A., and Chris Shilling. Re-Forming the Body: Religion, Community, and Modernity. London: Thousand Oaks, 1997.

Miles, Margaret R. Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West. Boston: Beacon, 1989.

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Nochlin, Linda. The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.

Perry, Gill, ed. Gender and Art. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.

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Vernant, Jean-Pierre. Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays, edited by Froma I. Zeitlin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Walters, Margaret. The Nude Male. London: Penguin, 1979.