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The Making of the modern body : sexuality and society in the nineteenth century / edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Gallagher, Catherine.
Laqueur, Thomas Walter.
Walter de Gruyter & Co.
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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