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The Making of the modern body : sexuality and society in the nineteenth century /

Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in different epochs, but it has also been lived differently, brought into being within widely dissimilar material cultures, subjected to various t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gallagher, Catherine, Laqueur, Thomas Walter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1987.
Colección:Representations Bks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Orgasm, generation, and the politics of reproductive biology / Thomas Laqueur
  • Skeletons in the closet : the first illustrations of the female skeleton in eighteenth-century anatomy / Londa Schiebinger
  • The body versus the social body in the works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew / Catherine Gallagher
  • 'Cage aux folles' : sensation and gender in Wilkie Collins's 'The woman in white' / D.A. Miller
  • "Scenes of an indelicate character" : the medical "treatment" of Victorian women / Mary Poovey
  • Morality and the wooden spoon : Russian doctors view syphilis, social class, and sexual behavior, 1890-1905 / Laura Engelstein
  • Commercial sexuality in nineteenth-century France : a system of images and regulations / Alain Corbin
  • Catastrophic utopia : the feminine as allegory of the modern / Christine Buci-Glucksmann.