Making of the Modern Body

Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century

AvCatherine Gallagher,Thomas Laqueur

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

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Beskrivning

Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in different epochs, but it has also been lived differently, brought into being within widely dissimilar material cultures, subjected to various technologies and means of control, and incorporated into different rhythms of production and consumption, pleasure and pain. The eight articles in this volume support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights. They belong to a new historical endeavor that derives partly from the crossing of historical with anthropological investigations, partly from social historians' deepening interest in culture, partly from the thematization of the body in modern philosophy (especially phenomenology), and partly from the emphasis on gender, sexuality, and women's history that large numbers of feminist scholars have brought to all disciplines.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1987-02-06
Mått:178 x 254 x 20 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Representations Books
Antal sidor:258
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520059610

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Mer om författaren

Catherine Gallagher is the Eggers Professor of English Literature and has taught at Berkeley 1980. Her teaching and research focus on the British novel and cultural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionTHOMAS LAQUEUROrgasm, Generation, and the Politicsof Reproductive BiologyLONDA SCHIEBINGERSkeletons in the Closet: The FirstIllustrations of the Female Skeleton inEighteenth-Century AnatomyCATHERINE GALLAGHERThe Body Versus the Social Bodyin the Works of Thomas Malthusand Henry MayhewD. A. MILLERCage aux folles: Sensation and Gender inWilkie Collins's The Woman in WhiteMARY POOVEY"Scenes of an Indelicate Character":The Medical "Treatment"of Victorian WomenLAURA ENGELSTEINMorality and the Wooden Spoon: RussianDoctors View Syphilis, Social Class, andSexual Behavior, 1890-1905ALAIN CORBINCommercial Sexuality in NineteenthCenturyFrance: A System of Imagesand RegulationsCHRISTINE BUCI-GLUCKSMANNCatastrophic Utopia: The Feminineas Allegory of the ModernList of Contributors