Epochs of Embodiment: Men, Women and the Material Body

Harvey, K. L.

doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12662

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“…Importantly, however, we did find that older participants and participants with lower BMIs had higher G-factor scores. While this is an area that requires further research, these findings are consistent with the suggestion that embodiment is a lived process that is likely to be affected by the physical state of one’s corporeal body [ 25 ].…”

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“…Two characteristics that are worthy of investigation in this regard are age and body mass index (BMI). In terms of the former, embodiment itself is a lived process that is likely to be affected by the physical state of one’s corporeal body, which in turn means that experiences of embodiment may be affected by age [ 25 ]. In terms of the latter, it is possible that navigating societies that objectify women based on BMI may affect experiences of embodiment.…”

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The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus

Swami,

Maïano,

Argyrides

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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The Experience of Embodiment Scale (EES) is a recently developed instrument that assesses experiences of living in the body. Here, we prepared a novel Greek translation of the EES and examined its psychometric properties. We initially prepared a Greek translation of the EES using a 5-step procedure recommended for test adaptation studies. Next, in a cross-sectional study, we asked a sample of 933 women from Cyprus to complete the Greek EES, alongside additional, previously validated measures assessing body appreciation, psychological well-being (self-esteem, life satisfaction), eating restriction, perfectionism, and internalisation of appearance ideals. Our analyses showed that EES factorial models based on confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) roundly had poor fit. Conversely, models based on exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM)–which accounts for the fact that EES items cross-load across factors–had adequate fit to the data. Additionally, we found that both higher-order and bifactor-ESEM models that controlled for the uniqueness of negatively worded items had adequate fit. The bifactor-ESEM model had the best fit of all the models tested, and was invariant across ethnicity (Greeks and Greek-Cypriots) and was unaffected by differential item functioning based on age and body mass index. Additionally, construct validity of the final, optimal model was adequate, especially for its G-factor, as indicated by significant associations with additional constructs in expected directions. These results suggest that a bifactor-ESEM model of the Greek EES has adequate psychometric properties. Our work highlights important psychometric issues relating to the manner in which the EES should (or could) be conceptualised and modelled, which should be considered more fully in future work.

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The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus

Swami,

Maïano,

Argyrides

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus

Bellis

2022

Br J Hist Sci

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William Hunter's anatomical inquiry employed all of his senses, but how did his personal experiences with the cadaver become generalized scientific knowledge teachable to students and understandable by fellow practitioners? Moving beyond a historiographical focus on Hunter's images and extending Lorraine Daston's (2008) concept of an ‘ontology of scientific observation’ to include non-visual senses, I argue that Hunter's work aimed to create a stabilized object of the cadaver that he and his students could perceive in common. Crucial to this stabilization was the sense of touch and its interaction with other senses, creating intersensory knowledge of the cadaver. Through a close reading of his neglected posthumous publication An Anatomical Description of the Human Gravid Uterus (1794), I demonstrate that Hunter wrote extensively about touch and other sensory experiences, using comparative metaphors and other linguistic strategies to engender clear ideas of the cadaver in the mind of the reader. That these ideas could be consistent between practitioners was guaranteed by God, but required practitioners to appropriately reflect on their sensory experiences with cadavers. Hunter's experimental practice encompassed both simple and complex methods, all aimed at increasing the range of sensorial experiences he had with the gravid uterus. His preservations of these experiences in text, image and preparation could then be used to support further anatomical investigations.

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Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.1750

Marshall

2024

The History of the Family

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Epochs of Embodiment: Men, Women and the Material Body

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus

The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus

‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus

Absent parents, sick children, and epistolary relationships in England, c.1640-c.1750

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