Georges Vigarello

Georges Vigarello (1941) is a French historian and sociologist.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

• Le corps redressé: histoire d'un pouvoir pedagogique, Delarge, 1978; new ed. as Le corps redressé, Armand Colin, 2001.

• Le Propre et le sale: l'hygiène du corps depuis le Moyen Âge, Paris: Seuil, 1985. Review
  • Lo limpio y lo sucio. La higiene del cuerpo desde la Edad Media, trans. Rosendo Ferrán, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1991, IA, ARG. (Spanish)

• Histoire du viol: xvie ‑ xxe siècles, Paris: Seuil, 1998, ARG/epub.
  • Historia de la violación: siglos XVI-XX, trans. Alicia Martorell, Madrid: Cátedra, 1999, ARG. (Spanish)

• A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16th to the 20th Century, Polity, 2001.

• Histoire de la beauté, le corps et l’art d’embellir de la renaissance à nos jours [A History of Beauty: The Body and the Art of Embellishment from the Renaissance to Nowadays], Paris: Seuil, 2004.

• editor, with Alain Corbin and Jean-Jacques Courtine, Histoire du corps, 3 vols., Paris: Seuil, 2006.
  • Istoria corpului, trans. Simona Manolache, Gina Puica, Muguraş Constantinescu, Mihaela Arnat and Giuliano Sfichi, 3 vols., Bucharest: Art, 2007-2009. (Romanian)

• Les métamorphoses du gras. Histoire de l’obésité, Paris: Seuil, 2010, 374 pp. Review
  • The metamorphoses of fat: a history of obesity, trans. C. Jon Delogu, New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, ARG. (English)

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Vigarello