The contemporary age is characterized by an increasing care for the human body, through multiple techniques, treatments and cosmetic practices. How does the artifice of embellishment contribute to the building of one's personality?
Georges Vigarello is directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he is also the Co-Director of the Centre Edgar Morin. In his historical and anthropological studies he has dealt with the topics of hygiene and health, as well as with the cultural representation of the body. Among his books translated into Italian: Lo sporco e il pulito. L’igiene e il corpo dal Medioevo a oggi (Venezia 1996); Il sano e il malato. Storia della cura del corpo dal Medioevo a oggi (Venezia 1996); Storia della violenza sessuale. XVI-XX secolo (Venezia 2001); Storia della bellezza. Il corpo e l’arte di abbellirsi dal Rinascimento a oggi (Roma 2007).
