Ploy of Instinct - Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance

Without wholly or consistently unseating the idea that instinct marked the proper province of women, workers and/or savages, this shift in instinct's appeal to civilized European men at the turn of the twentieth century nonetheless modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender.

List of contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Reading Like an Animal 2. The Case of Sexology at Work 3. Freud's Australia 4. Angel in the Big House Coda Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

Kathleen Frederickson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

Summary

Without wholly or consistently unseating the idea that instinct marked the proper province of women, workers and/or savages, this shift in instinct’s appeal to civilized European men at the turn of the twentieth century nonetheless modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Frederickson
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2014
• EAN: 9780823262519
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6251-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works