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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schuller, Kyla, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:ANIMA (Duke University Press)
Subjects:
1800-1899
Sentimentalism in literature > History > 19th century.
Emotions in literature > History > 19th century.
Eugenics in literature > History > 19th century.
Sex role > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > United States > History > 19th century.
Eugénisme dans la littérature > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et sciences > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Emotions in literature
Eugenics in literature
Literature and science
Sentimentalism in literature
Sex role
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sentimental biopower
  • Taxonomies of feeling: sensation and sentiment in evolutionary race science
  • Body as text, race as palimpsest: Frances E.W. Harper and black feminist biopolitics
  • Vaginal impressions: gyno-neurology and the racial origins of sexual difference
  • Incremental life: biophilanthropy and the child migrants of the lower east side
  • From impressibility to interactionism: W.E.B. du Bois, black eugenics, and the struggle
  • Against genetic determinisms
  • Epilogue: The afterlives of impressibility.

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