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Body and nation : the global realm of U.S. body politics in the twentieth century / edited by Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Political aspects--United States.
- Human body.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>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. Army to Cold War ideals of American feminine beauty, and from ""body counts"" as metrics of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in the United States as public health threats.</div>
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822356752
- 0822356759
- 9780822376712
- 0822376717
- OCLC:
- 1140001159
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