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Fay Bound Alberti

Fay Bound Alberti
Dr. Fay Bound Alberti is a writer, cultural historian and advisor. She has published widely on the histories of medicine and science, gender, the body and emotions. Dr. Bound Alberti co-founded the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London where she remains Honorary Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Bound Alberti’s most recent book is This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture.


A Darke and Vicious Place: Conceptualizing the Vagina

How Women’s Sex Organs Have Been Understood in Art and in History
July 25, 2016  By Fay Bound Alberti
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