The Making of the Modern Body - Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "The body in its cultural context has become a rich topic for interdisciplinary studies. . . . brings together theoretically sophisticated and empirically revealing contributions that present the most advanced work in this new field." --Hayden White Zusammenfassung Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. This title features eight articles that support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction THOMAS LAQUEUR Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology LONDA SCHIEBINGER Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy CATHERINE GALLAGHER The Body Versus the Social Body in the Works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew D. A. MILLER Cage aux folles: Sensation and Gender in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White MARY POOVEY "Scenes of an Indelicate Character": The Medical "Treatment" of Victorian Women LAURA ENGELSTEIN Morality and the Wooden Spoon: Russian Doctors View Syphilis, Social Class, and Sexual Behavior, 1890-1905 ALAIN CORBIN Commercial Sexuality in NineteenthCentury France: A System of Images and Regulations CHRISTINE BUCI-GLUCKSMANN Catastrophic Utopia: The Feminine as Allegory of the Modern List of Contributors

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Catherine Gallagher, Thomas Laqueur
• Mitarbeit: Catherine Gallagher (Herausgeber), Gallagher Catherine (Herausgeber), Thomas Laqueur (Herausgeber), Laqueur Thomas (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University Of California Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.07.1992
• EAN: 9780520059610
• ISBN: 978-0-520-05961-0
• Seiten: 242
• Abmessung: 173 mm x 254 mm x 15 mm
• Serien: Representations Books; Representations Books
• Themen: Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sozialstrukturforschung; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice