The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Kyla Schuller
- Content
- xi + 282 pp., ill., bibl.
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Publication notes
- Revised dissertation, University of California at San Diego
- Description
- Examines ways that sentimentalism affected definitions of gender and race and the appropriation of power. Analyzes material and processes including black uplift movements, child welfare reforms, evolutionary theories, feminist tracts, literary texts, and practices and theories in gynecological sciences.
- Main subject
- Feminism and Women's Rights
Literature and Literary Criticism
Science, Environment, Mathematics, and Technology - ISBN
- 9780822369233 (cloth); 9780822369530 (pap.); 9780822372356 (ebook)
- Citation
- Schuller, Kyla. The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed June 30, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1236.
- Updated
- 07-23-2021
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