The problem of the body in political culture -- Modern histories of the body -- Deconstructing the French Revolution -- The eighteenth-century medical revolution : bodies, souls and the social classes -- A new public body : stoicism, suffering and the middle class in the French Revolution -- Heroic suicide : the end of the body and the beginning of history -- The guillotine, the soul and the audience for death -- Words and flesh : Mme. Roland, the female body and the search for power -- The French Revolution, modernity and the body politic
