Fasting Women, Living Skeletons and Hunger Artists: Spectacles of Body and Miracles at the Turn of a Century

Body & Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 27-53

  Gooldin, Sigal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 29144456446     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X030092002     Document Type: Article

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