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Body and nation : the global realm of U.S. body politics in the twentieth century /

Attentive to the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history, the contributors provide historically grounded insights into the transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rosenberg, Emily S., 1944- (Editor ), Fitzpatrick, Shanon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:American encounters/global interactions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Colonial crossings: prostitution, disease, and the boundaries of empire during the Philippine-American war / Paul A. Kramer
  • Moral, purposeful, and healthful : the world of child's play, bodybuilding, and nation-building at the American circus / Janet M. Davis
  • Making broken bodies whole in a shell-shocked world / Annessa C. Stagner
  • Physical culture's world of bodies : transnational participatory pastiche and the body politics of America's globalized mass culture / Shanon Fitzpatrick
  • "The most beautiful Chinese girl in the world" : Anna May Wong's transnational racial modernity / Shirley Jennifer Lim
  • Roosevelt's body and national power / Frank Costigliola
  • Making "brown babies" : race and gender after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer
  • Regulating borders and bodies : U.S. immigration and public health policy / Natalia Molina
  • The American look : the nation in the shape of a woman / Emily S. Rosenberg
  • Sammy Lee: narratives of Asian American masculinity and race in decolonizing Asia / Mary Ting Yi Lui
  • Counting the bodies in Vietnam / Marilyn B. Young
  • "Nobody wants these people" : Reagan's immigration crisis and the containment of foreign bodies / Kristina Shull.