The bodily experience, despite being lived individually, is presented as a social experience in numerous investigations, to the extent that each society creates and constructs its own way of thinking and relating to bodily stimuli. From a historical perspective, it can be stated that there is no intelligible and universal grammar of the human body and its matter that allows it to be signified and appropriated in a univocal manner. The way in which each subject and society understands and lives their body has been transformed. Paraphrasing Rafael Mandressi, the “body” as an object of knowledge is an artificial object, never natural. Built like a large mosaic, Corpse, dust, shadow, nothing aspires to outline indicators that help us think about how the female body was constructed in New Spain throughout the 17th century. History—thought with De Certeau—is a recomposition of vestiges that...read more