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The Making of the modern body : sexuality and society in the nineteenth century / edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Representations (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 14.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Miscellanea.
- Sex.
- History.
- Sex--History--19th century.
- Sex--Social aspects.
- Sex Characteristics.
- Sexual Behavior.
- Women--psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sex Characteristics.
- Sexual Behavior.
- Women--psychology.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1987]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as Representations, no. 14, Spring 1986"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520908284
- 0520908287
- Publisher Number:
- 99984776038
- 9780520059610
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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