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The ploy of instinct : Victorian sciences of nature and sexuality in liberal governance /
It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Forms of living.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to instinct's deployment in conceptualizing governmentality. Instinct's domain, Frederickson argues, extended well beyond the women, workers, and ""savages"" to whom it was so often ascribed. The concept of instinct helped to gloss over contradictions in British liberal ideology made palpable as turn- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823262540 0823262545 9780823262557 0823262553 0823262510 9780823262519 0823262529 9780823262526 9780823266395 0823266397 |