Biographical Information
LANDES, Joan B
Walter L. and Helen Ferree Professor of Early Modern History and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Her publications include Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (1988), Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France (2001), Monstrous Bodies/ Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe (2004), “The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective,” in The Sistine Gap: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life, ed. J. Riskin (2007), and “Wax Bodies, Wax Fibers and Moving Anatomies: Artifice and Nature in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy,” in Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure, ed. R. Panzanelli (2008).
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