The Biopolitics of Feeling : Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century /

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In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility-the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences-to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schuller, Kyla (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]
Colección:ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise : 38
Temas:
Emotions in literature > History > 19th century.
Eugenics in literature > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > United States > History > 19th century.
Sentimentalism in literature > History > 19th century.
Sex role > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. Sentimental Biopower
  • 1. TAXONOMIES OF FEELING. Sensation and Sentiment in Evolutionary Race Science
  • 2. BODY AS TEXT, RACE AS PALIMPSEST. Frances E. W. Harper and Black Feminist Biopolitics
  • 3. VAGINAL IMPRESSIONS. Gyno-neurology and the Racial Origins of Sexual Difference
  • 4. INCREMENTAL LIFE. Biophilanthropy and the Child Migrants of the Lower East Side
  • 5. FROM IMPRESSIBILITY TO INTERACTIONISM. W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Eugenics, and the Struggle against Genetic Determinisms
  • EPILOGUE. The Afterlives of Impressibility
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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